The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Oct 03, 2013
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780812245509
Description: "etween the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a "third basket" of human rights principles; and the Carter administration formally gave the United States a human rights policy. The Breakthrough is the first collection to examine this decisive era as a whole, tracing key developments in both Western and non-Western engagement with human rights and placing new emphasis on the role of human rights in the international history of the past century."--book jacket.