China, the United Nations, and Human Rights
Subtitle: The Limits of Compliance (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780812216813
Subjects: Human rights; United Nations & UN agencies; Politics / Current Events; Political; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; China; International Relations - General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; United Nations
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.