China, the United Nations, and Human Rights
Subtitle: The Limits of Compliance (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780812234787
Subjects: Politics - Current Events; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Contemporary Politics - China; Political And Civil Rights; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; United Nations; Politics/International Relations; International Relations - General; International human rights law; Human rights; Political; China
First sentence: The emergence of the human rights regime as a focus of international politics in the late 1980s and the early 1990s originally arose from pressures on and in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to move away from the socialist system.