The third volume for the OUP/National History Center series,
Reinterpreting History, this book offers a critical look at the
political movement encompassed by human rights, a term rarely used
before the 1940s. An agenda for human rights, with particular
attention to international justice in the wake of crimes against
humanity, women's rights, indigenous rights, the right to health
care, all developed in the second half of the 20th century. Drawing
on the work of legal scholars, political scientists, journalists,
activists, and historians, human rights as a field of research has
been characterized by analysis of natural rights, study of key
documents like the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
discussion of activism and NGOs, and analysis of rhetoric. This
volume will take a case study approach that will shed light on
different perspectives, methodologies, and conceptualizations for
the study of human rights history. The contributors to this volume
look at the wave of human rights legislation emerging out of World
War II, including the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Nuremberg
trial, and the Geneva Conventions, and the flowering of human
rights activity in the 1970s and beyond, including anti-torture
campaigns and Amnesty International, Indonesia and East Timor,
international scientists and human rights, and female genital
mutilation. The book concludes with a look at the UN Declaration at
its 60th anniversary. Together the group of renowned senior and
junior scholars create a volume that can introduce students from a
range of disciplines to this topic, as well as offer new
perspectives for scholars.
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