At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern "father" of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead. A must have for everyone in the human rights community and the broader foreign policy community as well as the reader who is increasingly aware of the visibility of human rights concerns on the public stage.
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Samantha Power is a Professor of Practice in Public Policy at Harvard University, and the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002).
Graham Allison is former Dean of the Kennedy School. He has authored more than a dozen books including Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis which has sold over 200,000 copies.
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By the end of the twentieth century, human rights, a political-philosophical idea, had become an ideology of our times, achieving near-universal acceptance, with little dissent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, United Nations, New York, African Charter, African Commission, Security Council, European Union, South Africa, General Assembly, Soviet Union, Council of Europe, European Convention, European Parliament, United Kingdom, Supreme Court, European Community, Latin America, American Convention, State Department, Inter-American Court, Amnesty International, European Council, Inter-American Commission, Eastern Europe, Jimmy Carter New!
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United States, United Nations, New York, African Charter, African Commission, Security Council, European Union, South Africa, General Assembly, Soviet Union, Council of Europe, European Convention, European Parliament, United Kingdom, Supreme Court, European Community, Latin America, American Convention, State Department, Inter-American Court, Amnesty International, European Council, Inter-American Commission, Eastern Europe, Jimmy Carter New!
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- Human Rights (University Casebook Series) by Gerald L. Neuman on 12 pages
- Human Rights by Ellen Frankel Paul on 4 pages
- International Law (Casenote Legal Briefs) by Casenotes on 4 pages
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With O by Philip Gourevitch on page 246, page 335, and page 349
- Human Rights: Its Culture and Moral Confusions by Howard Taylor on page 219, and page 309
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- A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Mary Ann Glendon on page 243
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