The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Subtitle: Origins, Drafting, and Intent (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: September 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780812217476
Subjects: Human rights; 20th century; Politics - Current Events; Political And Civil Rights; United Nations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Law; Politics/International Relations; General; Political Science / General; International Relations - General; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights
First sentence: When the United Nations was founded in San Francisco in 1945 there was tremendous pressure on the delegates to that founding conference to include an international bill of rights in the Charter of the United Nations.