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Indivisible Human Rights : A History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205404
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Indivisible Human RightsDDC classification:
  • 323.09
LOC classification:
  • JC571 -- .W423 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- TitlePage -- CopyrightPage -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Indivisible, Interdependent, and Interrelated Human Rights -- Chapter 2. Antecedents of the Universal Declaration -- Chapter 3. International Guarantees and State Responsibility before the Universal Declaration -- Chapter 4. From Declaration to Covenant -- Chapter 5. Including Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 6. Division of the Covenant -- Chapter 7. Indivisibility as Postcolonial Revisionism: 1952-1968 -- Chapter 8. Indivisibility as Economic Justice: 1968-1986 -- Chapter 9. Indivisibility as Restoration: 1986-2009 -- Chapter 10. Indivisible Human Rights: Past and Future -- Appendix. Covenants on Human Rights: Drafting Procedures and Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexs -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Daniel Whelan illustrates how the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that have little to do with protecting the rights of the individual. Drawing on scores of original documents, he reveals the conflicts and compromises behind a half century of human rights discourse.
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Cover -- TitlePage -- CopyrightPage -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Indivisible, Interdependent, and Interrelated Human Rights -- Chapter 2. Antecedents of the Universal Declaration -- Chapter 3. International Guarantees and State Responsibility before the Universal Declaration -- Chapter 4. From Declaration to Covenant -- Chapter 5. Including Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 6. Division of the Covenant -- Chapter 7. Indivisibility as Postcolonial Revisionism: 1952-1968 -- Chapter 8. Indivisibility as Economic Justice: 1968-1986 -- Chapter 9. Indivisibility as Restoration: 1986-2009 -- Chapter 10. Indivisible Human Rights: Past and Future -- Appendix. Covenants on Human Rights: Drafting Procedures and Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexs -- Acknowledgments.

Daniel Whelan illustrates how the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that have little to do with protecting the rights of the individual. Drawing on scores of original documents, he reveals the conflicts and compromises behind a half century of human rights discourse.

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