The international human rights movement : a history /
"During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruelties in wars, and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The Interna...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2012, ©2012
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| Series: | Human rights and crimes against humanity
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Table of Contents:
- The movement
- Putting natural law principles into practice
- What are rights?
- International human rights law
- International humanitarian law
- Defying communism
- Rights on the other side of the Cold War divide
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights Watch
- The worldwide movement
- Accountability
- Rights after 9/11
- Going forward