Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights
Roland Burke
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- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
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- Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The politics of decolonization and the evolution of the International Human Rights Project
- 1. Human rights and the birth of the Third World : the Bandung conference
- 2. "Transforming the end into the means" : the Third World and the right to self-determination
- 3. Putting the stamps back on : apartheid, anticolonialism, and the accidental birth of a universal right to petition
- 4. "It is very fitting" : celebrating freedom in the Shah's Iran, the First World Conference on Human Rights, Tehran 1968
- 5. "According to their own norms of civilization" : the rise of cultural relativism and the decline of human rights.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Physical Description:
- 234 pages ; 24 cm.
- Call Numbers:
- JC571 .B85 2010
- ISBNs:
- 9780812242195 (alk. paper)
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2009029042
- OCLC Numbers:
- 426147429