Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration

by Johannes Morsink

Confronting the evils of World War II and building on the legacy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a group of world citizens including Eleanor Roosevelt drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations in 1948, the Universal Declaration has been translated into 300 languages and has become the basis for most other international human rights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241622
• ISBN13: 9780812241624
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"