Author:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Human Rights Internet Reporter
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Human Rights
Author: Thomas P. Fenton
Publisher: Orbis Books
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies
Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Women's International Network News
Author: Women's International Network
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Human Rights Education
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Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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The African Book Publishing Record
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Masterlist
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Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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State Crimes
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Category : Crimes against humanity
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Crimes against humanity
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The Last Utopia
Author: Samuel Moyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Our Common Future
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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