Advocating dignity [electronic resource] : human rights mobilizations in global politics / Jean H. Quataert
- Author
- Quataert, Jean H. (Jean Helen), 1945-
- Published
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 355 p. : maps, charts ; 24 cm.
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- Contents
- The new moral order : between human dignity and territorial sovereignty -- Raising the bar, 1900-1949 -- An emerging human rights orthodoxy : the first round -- Cold War politics and human rights publics : the international antiapartheid and Soviet dissident movements, 1952-90 -- Mothers' courage and U.N. monitoring of disappearance, 1973-83 -- The debate continues : critics and new mechanisms -- The gender factor since the 1970s : universality and the private sphere -- Citizenship, socioeconomic rights, and the courts in the age of transnational migrations -- Human rights at a crossroads : wars, crimes, and priorities -- Ethnic violence, humanitarian intervention, and criminal accountability in the 1990s -- September 2001 and history -- Making a difference.
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- ISBN
- 9780812241631 (alk. paper)
0812241630 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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