Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0312234945 ISBN 13: 9780312234942

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Riassunto

A collection of powerful essays from a wide variety of activists, politicians, and scholars, including former President Jimmy Carter, reviews the effects of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and considers the potential and the challenges of the future.

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L'autore

LOUIS HENKIN Director of Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School, USAANNA HUSARSKA Politics Analyst and New Yorker Correspondent, USAMAKAU MUTYA Director of the Kenya Human Rights CommissionMARY ROBINSON UN High Commissioner for Human RightsJOHN SHATTUCK USA Ambassador to the Czech RepublicSHIRLEY WILLIAMS British Member of Parliament

Samantha Power is a Professor of Practice in Public Policy at Harvard University, and the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002).
Graham Allison is former Dean of the Kennedy School. He has authored more than a dozen books includingEssence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis which has sold over 200,000 copies.

LOUIS HENKIN Director of Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School, USA ANNA HUSARSKA Politics Analyst and New Yorker Correspondent, USA MAKAU MUTYA Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission MARY ROBINSON UN High Commissioner for Human Rights JOHN SHATTUCK USA Ambassador to the Czech Republic SHIRLEY WILLIAMS British Member of Parliament

Product Description

At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern "father" of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead. A must have for everyone in the human rights community and the broader foreign policy community as well as the reader who is increasingly aware of the visibility of human rights concerns on the public stage.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312234945
• ISBN 13: 9780312234942
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 370
• Redattore: Power Samantha, Allison Graham T.