Screen LibraryIndivisible human rights : a history /
Daniel Whelan illustrates how the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that have little to do with protecting the rights of the individual. Drawing on scores of original documents, he reveals the conflicts and compromises behind a half century of human rights...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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| Summary: |
Daniel Whelan illustrates how the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that have little to do with protecting the rights of the individual. Drawing on scores of original documents, he reveals the conflicts and compromises behind a half century of human rights discourse. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780812205404 |
| Index Number: | JC571 |
| CLC: | D082 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Indivisible, Interdependent, and Interrelated Human Rights -- Chapter 2. Antecedents of the Universal Declaration -- Chapter 3. International Guarantees and State Responsibility before the Universal Declaration -- Chapter 4. From Declaration to Covenant -- Chapter 5. Including Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 6. Division of the Covenant -- Chapter 7. Indivisibility as Postcolonial Revisionism: 1952 1968 -- Chapter 8. Indivisibility as Economic Justice: 1968 1986 -- Chapter 9. Indivisibility as Restoration: 1986 2009 -- Chapter 10. Indivisible Human Rights: Past and Future -- Appendix: Covenants on Human Rights: Drafting Procedures and Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |