Advocating dignity : human rights mobilizations in global politics / Jean H. Quataert.
2009
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Title
Advocating dignity : human rights mobilizations in global politics / Jean H. Quataert.
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Call Number
JC571 .Q465 2009
ISBN
9780812241631 (alk. paper)
0812241630 (alk. paper)
0812241630 (alk. paper)
Description
xiii, 355 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)290494397
Summary
In this work, Quataert explores the emergence, development, and impact of the human rights revolution following World War II. She argues that human rights advocacy networks have been a vital dimension of international political developments since 1945.
Note
In this work, Quataert explores the emergence, development, and impact of the human rights revolution following World War II. She argues that human rights advocacy networks have been a vital dimension of international political developments since 1945.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
The New Moral Order: Between Human Dignity and Territorial Sovereignty
1
1
Raising the Bar, 1900-1949
19
Pt. I
An Emerging Human Rights Orthodoxy: The First Round
61
2
Cold War Politics and Human Rights Publics: The International Antiapartheid and Soviet Dissident Movements, 1952-90
69
3
Mothers' Courage and U.N. Monitoring of Disappearance, 1973-83
109
Pt. II
The Debate Continues: Critics and New Mechanisms
141
4
The Gender Factor since the 1970s: Universality and the Private Sphere
149
5
Citizenship, Socioeconomic Rights, and the Courts in the Age of Transnational Migrations
182
Pt. III
Human Rights at a Crossroads: Wars, Crimes, and Priorities
221
6
Ethnic Violence, Humanitarian Intervention, and Criminal Accountability in the 1990s
229
7
September 2001 and History
262
Conclusion: Making a Difference
294
Notes
307
Index
341