Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi ; foreword by Richard A. Falk
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2008
xxxii, 486 p. ;
25 cm
United Nations intellectual history project
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-458) and index
First expressions of human rights ideas -- The decline of human rights between World Wars -- The human rights crusade in World War II -- Human rights politics in the United Nations charter -- Laying the human rights foundation -- The universal declaration of human rights -- The human rights covenants -- The human rights of special groups -- The right to development -- Human rights after the Cold War