Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights

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ISBN	9780812242195 (hbk.)
Call Number	JC571 B959 2010
Author	Burke, Roland
Title	Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights / Roland Burke
Imprint	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Physical	234 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary	In Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights, Roland Burke explores the changing impact of decolonization on the UN human rights program. By recovering the contributions of those Asian, African, and Arab voices that joined the global rights debate, Burke demonstrates the central importance of Third World influence across the most pivotal battles in the United Nations, from those that secured the principle of universality, to the passage of the first binding human rights treaties, to the flawed but radical step of studying individual pleas for help. The very presence of so many independent voices from outside the West, and the often defensive nature of Western interventions, complicates the common presumption that the postwar human rights project was driven by Europe and the United States. Drawing on UN transcripts, archives, and the personal papers of key historical actors, this book challenges the notion that the international rights order was imposed on an unwilling and marginalized Third World. Far from being excluded, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern diplomats were powerful agents in both advancing and later obstructing the promotion of human rights.
Founding Information Note	With the compliments of International Human Rights Affair Bureau, NHRC.
Subject	Human rights
Subject	Decolonization
Subject	Menschenrecht
Subject	Entkolonialisierung
Keyword	New Arrivals 06-2019
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