The contentious history of the International Bill of Human Rights
By: Christopher N. J. Roberts, University of Minnesota Law School
Series: Cambridge studies in law and society; Cambridge studies in law and society
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781107601635; 9781107014633
Subjects: Human rights; United Nations. General Assembly; United Nations; History
Description: "Traces conflicts about the definition of human rights and shows how a series of contradictions worked their way into the International Bill of Human Rights"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What are human rights and where do they come from?; title: From war and politics to human rights: The Cold War and colonial recession; title: Protecting state sovereignty from the 'dangers' of human rights; title: Saving empire: the attempt to create (non)-universal human rights; title: A human rights Treaty that permits lynching?; title: The United States' unequivocal ambivalence towards socioeconomic rights.