The Routledge History of Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9781138784338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 670 str.

Jean Quataert; Lora Wildenthal

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The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human rights themes of the past 150 years. It is perfect for those interested in social justice, grass roots activism, and international politics and society.

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1. Introduction: An Open-Ended and Contingent History of Human Rights  Part 1. The New Internationalism  2. John Anderson - Slave, Refugee, and Freedom Fighter: A Human Rights Campaign in the Age of Empire  3. Investigating and Ameliorating Atrocities in the Nineteenth Century: International Commissions of Inquiry in the Balkans (1876-1880)  4. Reclaiming Congo Reform for the History of Human Rights  5. The Red Cross and the Laws of War, 1863-1949: International Rights Activism before Human Rights  Part 2. The Interwar Era: The League of Nations  6. United in their Quest for Peace? Transnational Women Activists between the World Wars 7. The "Rights of Man" and Sex Equality: International Human Rights Discourses in the 1930s  Part 3. The Formative UN Era  A. UN Treaty Making  8. Social and Economic Rights: The Struggle for Equivalent Protection  9. Islam and UN Human Rights Treaty Ratification in the Middle East: The Impact of International Law on Diplomacy  10. When the War Came: The Child Rights Convention and the Conflation of Human Rights and the Laws of War  B. Decolonization  11. "Why Then Call It the Declaration of Human Rights?" The Failures of Universal Human Rights in Colonial Africa’s Internationally Supervised Territories  12. Decolonization, Development, and Identity: The Evolution of the Anticolonial Human Rights Critique, 1948-1978  13. "When You are Weak, You Have to Stick to Principles": Botswana and Anti-Colonialism in Human Rights History  C. Socialist and Capitalist Versions of Human Rights  14. The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Gender of Economic Rights  15. Human Rights Movements and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Explaining the Peaceful Revolution of 1989  16. Human Rights in China: Resisting Orthodoxy  17. Continuity and Change in U.S. Human Rights Policy  Part 4. After Formal Empire and the Cold War: How Human Rights are Practiced Around the Globe (1980s-2001)  18. The Universality of Human Rights: Early NGO Practices in the Arab World  19. How Women Become Human: Chilean Contributions to Women’s Human Rights from Dictatorship to the 21^st Century  20. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo: From Dictatorship to Democracy  21. Asma Jahangir: Personifying the Human Rights Debate in Pakistan  Part 5. The Universal Human Rights Pantheon in National Contexts  22. Freedom of Religion and the New Diversity: Case Studies from Canada  23. Indigenous Activism for Human Rights: A Case Study from Australia  24. The International LGBT Rights Movement: An Introductory History   25. Rights in Isolation: Lessons on Public Health and Human Rights from Leprosy and HIV in the Pacific Islands  Part 6. New Forms of Accountability in a National Security World (2001 to the Present)  26. Decentralization and Public-Private Diplomacy in the Business and Human Rights Field  27. The Selectivity of Universal Jurisdiction: The History of Transnational Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America and Spain  28. Militarized Sexual Violence and Campaigns for Redress  29. Solidarity Rights and the Common Heritage of Humanity  30. Intellectual Property Law and Human Rights  31. Caged at the Border: Immigration Detention and the Denial of Human Rights to Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants  Part 7. The Transformative Impact of Human Rights on Knowledge  32. Archiving Human Rights in Latin America: Transitional Justice and Shifting Visions of Political Change  33. Emotion in the History of Human Rights: A Case Study of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights  34. From the Classroom to the Public: Engaging Students in Human Rights History