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020 _a9781107531079
082 _a341.481 JEN
100 1 _aJensen, Steven L. B.
245 1 4 _aThe making of international human rights :
_bthe 1960s, decolonization, and the reconstruction of global values /
_cSteven L. B. Jensen
264 1 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2016.
300 _axi, 313 p. ;
_c24 cm.
490 0 _aHuman rights in history
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Power carries its own conviction': the early rise and fall of human rights, 1945-60; 2. 'The problem of freedom': the United Nations and decolonization, 1960-1; 3. From Jamaica with law: the rekindling of international human rights, 1962-7; 4. The making of a precedent: racial discrimination and international human rights law, 1962-6; 5. 'The hymn of hate': the failed convention on elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, 1962-7; 6. 'So bitter a year for human rights': 1968 and the UN International Year for Human Rights; 7. 'To cope with the flux of the future': human rights and the Helsinki Final Act, 1962-75; 8. The presence of the disappeared, 1968-93; Conclusion.
610 2 0 _aUnited Nations.
_bCommission on Human Rights.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aDecolonization
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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