Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights /

Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights / / Roland Burke.

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In the decades following the triumphant proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN General Assembly was transformed by the arrival of newly independent states from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This diverse constellation of states introduced new ideas, methods, an...

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Burke, Roland,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Politics of Decolonization and the Evolution of the International Human Rights Project
  • Chapter 1. Human Rights and the Birth of the Third World: The Bandung Conference
  • Chapter 2. "Transforming the End into the Means": The Third World and the Right to Self-Determination
  • Chapter 3 .Putting the Stamps Back On: Apartheid, Anticolonialism, and the Accidental Birth of a Universal Right to Petition
  • Chapter 4. "It Is Very Fitting": Celebrating Freedom in the Shah's Iran, the First World Conference on Human Rights, Tehran 1968
  • Chapter 5. "According to Their Own Norms of Civilization": The Rise of Cultural Relativism and the Decline of Human Rights
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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