Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice (United Nations Intellectual History Project Series) - Hardcover

Normand, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253349354 ISBN 13: 9780253349354

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Normand and Zaidi provide a broad political history of the emergence and development of the human rights movement in the 20th century through the crucible of the United Nations, focusing on the hopes and expectations, concrete power struggles, national rivalries, and bureaucratic politics that moulded human rights law.

About this title

From the Publisher

"All who care about human rights need to carefully ponder the challenges that the authors present." --from the foreword by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss

"Expert and rigorous in methodology, engaging in style, pragmatic yet principled and visionary, this indispensable book is accessible to students, activists, scholars, and practitioners. We all need to understand how and why this system came to be the way it is today if we are to re-appropriate its humane vision and re-enact its humanizing power." --Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Emory University School of Law

About the Author

Roger Normand is Associate Professor of Law at Lahore University, Pakistan, and co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He has lectured widely on topics related to international politics and human rights. He lives in Lahore, Pakistan.

Sarah Zaidi is Coordinator of Research and Information Systems for Earthquakes–Pakistan and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Social Rights. She lives in Lahore, Pakistan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253349354
• ISBN 13: 9780253349354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 456