Human rights at the UN: the political history of universal justice

Abstract

IntroductionPart I: Human Rights Foundation in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 1. First Expressions of International Human Rights Ideas 2. The Decline of Human Rights between World Wars 3. The Human Rights Crusade in the Second World War 4. Human Rights Politics in the United Nations CharterPart II: UN Negotiations and the Modern Human Rights Framework 5. Laying the Human Rights Foundation 6. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 7. The CovenantsPart III: The Impact of Civil Society and Decolonization 8. The Human Rights of Special Groups 9. The Right to Development 10. Looking at Human Rights since 1990 and in the Future