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Author : John P. Humphrey
Publisher : McGill Universities Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Edge of Greatness: 1950-1951 written by John P. Humphrey and published by McGill Universities Libraries. This book was released on 1994 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John P. Humphrey
Publisher : McGill Universities Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Edge of Greatness: 1948-1949 written by John P. Humphrey and published by McGill Universities Libraries. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel J. Whelan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205405
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Indivisible Human Rights written by Daniel J. Whelan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights activists frequently claim that human rights are indivisible, and the United Nations has declared the indivisibility, interdependency, and interrelatedness of these rights to be beyond dispute. Yet in practice a significant divide remains between the two grand categories of human rights: civil and political rights, on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. To date, few scholars have critically examined how the notion of indivisibility has shaped the complex relationship between these two sets of rights. In Indivisible Human Rights, Daniel J. Whelan offers a carefully crafted account of the rhetoric of indivisibility. Whelan traces the political and historical development of the concept, which originated in the contentious debates surrounding the translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into binding treaty law as two separate Covenants on Human Rights. In the 1960s and 1970s, Whelan demonstrates, postcolonial states employed a revisionist rhetoric of indivisibility to elevate economic and social rights over civil and political rights, eventually resulting in the declaration of a right to development. By the 1990s, the rhetoric of indivisibility had shifted to emphasize restoration of the fundamental unity of human rights and reaffirm the obligation of states to uphold both major human rights categories—thus opening the door to charges of violations resulting from underdevelopment and poverty. As Indivisible Human Rights illustrates, the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that have little to do with promoting the rights of the individual. Drawing on scores of original documents, many of them long forgotten, Whelan lets the players in this drama speak for themselves, revealing the conflicts and compromises behind a half century of human rights discourse. Indivisible Human Rights will be welcomed by scholars and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding the realization of human rights.
Author : Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375760466
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book A World Made New written by Mary Ann Glendon and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international bill of rights. A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or religion. A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at Harvard University, was given exclusive access, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor Roosevelt’s life, and in world history. Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Author : John P. Humphrey
Publisher : Montreal, PQ McGill University Libraries 1994 1996 1997 2000
ISBN 13 : 9780773514584
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (145 download)
Download or read book On the Edge of Greatness : V.1: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights, Volume 1, 1948-1949 V. 2: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights, Volume 2, 1950-1951 V. 3: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights, Volume 3, 1952-1957 V. 4: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights, Volume 4, 1958-1966 Humphrey, John P. Hobbins, A.J., Ed written by John P. Humphrey and published by Montreal, PQ McGill University Libraries 1994 1996 1997 2000. This book was released on 2000 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 (1948-1949), 2 (1950-1951) and volume 4 (1958-1966) in the series of 14 diaries of John Humphrey's daily events during his tenure as first director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights.
Author : Glenn Mitoma
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220803X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power written by Glenn Mitoma and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American attitude toward human rights is deemed inconsistent, even hypocritical: while the United States is characterized (or self-characterized) as a global leader in promoting human rights, the nation has consistently restrained broader interpretations of human rights and held international enforcement mechanisms at arm's length. Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power examines the causes, consequences, and tensions of America's growth as the leading world power after World War II alongside the flowering of the human rights movement. Through careful archival research, Glenn Mitoma reveals how the U.S. government, key civil society groups, Cold War politics, and specific individuals contributed to America's emergence as an ambivalent yet central player in establishing an international rights ethic. Mitoma focuses on the work of three American civil society organizations: the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the American Bar Association—and their influence on U.S. human rights policy from the late 1930s through the 1950s. He demonstrates that the burgeoning transnational language of human rights provided two prominent United Nations diplomats and charter members of the Commission on Human Rights—Charles Malik and Carlos Romulo—with fresh and essential opportunities for influencing the position of the United States, most particularly with respect to developing nations. Looking at the critical contributions made by these two men, Mitoma uncovers the unique causes, tensions, and consequences of American exceptionalism.
Author : John P. Humphrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Edge of Greatness: 1952-1957 written by John P. Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mishana Hosseinioun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319572105
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Human Rights Turn and the Paradox of Progress in the Middle East written by Mishana Hosseinioun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East’s place in the world by chronicling the region’s contributions to the international order rather than disorder, and to the development of the international human rights system. It elucidates the many paradoxes that make the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region both a troubling place and also a region brimming with great potential for peace, prosperity and progress. By demonstrating the paradox of human rights progress amid regress, the book tells a radically new and more hopeful side of the story of the region that has largely been obfuscated and omitted from the chronicles of history. In so doing, it shows that fostering a human rights culture is not only possible for all universally, it is inevitable.
Author : James Loeffler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235062
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Rooted Cosmopolitans written by James Loeffler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both remain tied together in the ongoing debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, global antisemitism, and American foreign policy. Yet the surprising connections between Zionism and the origins of international human rights are completely unknown today. In this riveting account, James Loeffler explores this controversial history through the stories of five remarkable Jewish founders of international human rights, following them from the prewar shtetls of eastern Europe to the postwar United Nations, a journey that includes the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, the founding of Amnesty International, and the UN resolution of 1975 labeling Zionism as racism. The result is a book that challenges long-held assumptions about the history of human rights and offers a startlingly new perspective on the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Author : Roland Burke
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205324
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights written by Roland Burke and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following the triumphant proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN General Assembly was transformed by the arrival of newly independent states from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This diverse constellation of states introduced new ideas, methods, and priorities to the human rights program. Their influence was magnified by the highly effective nature of Asian, Arab, and African diplomacy in the UN human rights bodies and the sheer numerical superiority of the so-called Afro-Asian bloc. Owing to the nature of General Assembly procedure, the Third World states dominated the human rights agenda, and enthusiastic support for universal human rights was replaced by decades of authoritarianism and an increasingly strident rejection of the ideas laid out in the Universal Declaration. 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.
Author : Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494104
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Human Rights in the Twentieth Century written by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the essays collected here make clear that human rights are a relatively recent invention that emerged in contingent and contradictory ways. Focusing on specific instances of their assertion or violation during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented. In doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that historians have only recently begun to explore.
Author : David Kaiser
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628629
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Baseball Greatness written by David Kaiser and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in baseball statistical analysis have made it possible to assess the totality of contribution each player makes to team success or failure. Using the metric Wins Above Average (WAA)--the number of wins that the 2016 Red Sox, for example, added because they had Mookie Betts in right field, instead of an average player--the author undertakes a fascinating review of major league baseball from 1901 through 2017. The great teams are analyzed, underscoring why they were successful. The great players of each generation are identified using simple, reliable metrics--from Ty Cobb through Mike Trout, and pitchers from Christy Mathewson to Clayton Kershaw. Surprises abound. The importance of pitching is found to be vastly exaggerated. Many Hall of Fame pitchers (and some hitters) achieved immortality almost entirely on the backs of their teammates, while a few over-qualified players still await induction. Focusing on today's rosters, the WAA assessment shows that the game is threatened by an unprecedented shortage of great players.
Author : Stanley B. Frost
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581901
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Autumn Harvest written by Stanley B. Frost and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autumn Harvest brings a decade of Stanley Frost's poems together in one anthology that is varied in both style and content. Spiced with humour, children's verses, Chaucerian-style narratives, and incisive historical and political comments, the poems offer religious and philosophical meditations on matters both timely and timeless. Whether he is capturing a sunset in a Hampstead garden, conveying the emotional impact of Trudeau's funeral, recounting the imperishable story of Abelard and Heloise, saluting the vitality and universality of the English language, distilling the magic of Christmas, or drafting a prequel to Paradise Lost, Stanley Frost writes to be understood.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Library of Congress Author Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eileen R. Janzen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773589627
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Growing to One World written by Eileen R. Janzen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. King Gordon's story is one of youthful vision and high ideals sustained throughout a life of concrete action at home and abroad. Grounded in his father's social gospel and given intellectual heft and hue by exposure to radical politics at Oxford and in New York, he returned to Canada as a self-described "Christian radical" and threw himself into the emerging social and political ferment of the 1930s. In Growing to One World, Eileen Janzen details a life spent championing progressive politics in Canada and a commitment to peace and diplomacy on the international stage. As a founding member of the League for Social Reconstruction, Gordon was one of the authors of the Regina Manifesto for the newly formed Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the forerunner of today's NDP, and worked tirelessly on the party's behalf. Later, he realized his vocation as a member of the United Nations' division of human rights, serving in Korea, the Middle East, and the Congo as both an eyewitness to and participant in formative events shaping those regions. Exhaustively researched and informed by a sophisticated analytical grasp of political theory and international affairs, Growing to One World is a compelling look at an important supporter of peace, justice, and human rights across the globe.
Author : Joseph Runzo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780746814
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Human Rights and Responsibilities in the World Religions written by Joseph Runzo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume outlines the approaches to human rights and responsibilities within the different world religions. Featuring contributions from over 15 scholars, the book covers such key issues as women's rights, the role of international law, and responsibility for the environment. It also includes a "Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religions", presented at the third Parliament of the World Religions.
Author : John Thomas Peters Humphrey
Publisher : Montreal, PQ McGill University Libraries 1994 1996 1997 2000
ISBN 13 : 9780771704406
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Download or read book On the Edge of Greatness : V.1: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights, Volume 1, 1948-1949 V. 2: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights, Volume 2, 1950-1951 V. 3: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights, Volume 3, 1952-1957 V. 4: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights, Volume 4, 1958-1966 Humphrey, John P. Hobbins, A.J., Ed written by John Thomas Peters Humphrey and published by Montreal, PQ McGill University Libraries 1994 1996 1997 2000. This book was released on 1994 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 (1948-1949), 2 (1950-1951) and volume 4 (1958-1966) in the series of 14 diaries of John Humphrey's daily events during his tenure as first director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights.
