Asia and the Drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

by Robin Ramcharan and Bertrand Ramcharan

This is the first book that explicitly outlines Asian contributions to the elaboration of universal human rights values that were proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Evidence of Asia's contribution from the historical records of the Commission on Human Rights (1946 to 1948) profoundly refutes any remnants of the relativist 'Asian values' discourse. Asians shaped the 'new humanism' of the UDHR and the universal values that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811321035
• ISBN13: 9789811321030
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"