Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights
By: Roland Burke.
Series: Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812242195
Subjects: Human rights; Decolonization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human rights and the birth of the third world : the Bandung Conference; title: "Transforming the end into the means" : the third world and the right to self-determination; title: Putting the stamps back on : apartheid, anticolonialism, and the accidental birth of a universal right to petition; title: "It is very fitting" : celebrating freedom in the Shah's iran, the first world conference on human rights; title: "According to their own norms of civilization" : the rise of cultural relativism and the decline of human rights.