Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics

by Jean H. Quataert

Book Overview

In Advocating Dignity, Jean H. Quataert explores the emergence, development, and impact of the human rights revolution following World War II. Intertwining popular local and national mobilizations for rights with ongoing developments of a formal international system of rights monitoring in the United Nations, Quataert argues that human rights advocacy networks have been a vital dimension of international political developments since 1945...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221273
• ISBN13: 9780812221275
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"