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Advocating dignity : human rights mobilizations in global politics
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Advocating Dignity is a detailed historical account of the emergence, development, and impact of the global human rights revolution. Drawing on graphic case studies from various global settings, it...
Advocating Dignity is a detailed historical account of the emergence, development, and impact of the global human rights revolution. Drawing on graphic case studies from various global settings, it narrates the hopes and bitter struggles that have altered the course of international and domestic relations since 1945.
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- Creator
- Jean H. Quataert
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 355 pages) : maps, charts
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 0812221273, 9780812206128, 9781283897167, 0812206126, 9780812221275, 0812241630, 1283897164, 9780812241631
- OCLC
- ocn794702281, ocn290494397
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- In English.
- The new moral order : between human dignity and territorial sovereignty -- Raising the bar, 1900-1949 -- An emerging human rights orthodoxy : the first round -- Cold War politics and human rights publics : the international antiapartheid and Soviet dissident movements, 1952-90 -- Mothers' courage and U.N. monitoring of disappearance, 1973-83 -- The debate continues : critics and new mechanisms -- The gender factor since the 1970s : universality and the private sphere -- Citizenship, socioeconomic rights, and the courts in the age of transnational migrations -- Human rights at a crossroads : wars, crimes, and priorities -- Ethnic violence, humanitarian intervention, and criminal accountability in the 1990s -- September 2001 and history -- Making a difference