04843nam 2200673Ia 450 991046413310332120200520144314.01-283-89739-30-8122-0540-510.9783/9780812205404(CKB)3170000000046748(OCoLC)793341714(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576031(SSID)ssj0000605909(PQKBManifestationID)11381843(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605909(PQKBWorkID)10579883(PQKB)10319986(MiAaPQ)EBC3441591(MdBmJHUP)muse8335(DE-B1597)449392(OCoLC)1013938843(OCoLC)806880716(DE-B1597)9780812205404(Au-PeEL)EBL3441591(CaPaEBR)ebr10576031(CaONFJC)MIL420989(OCoLC)932312545(EXLCZ)99317000000004674820091130d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIndivisible human rights[electronic resource] a history /Daniel J. WhelanPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20101 online resource (279 p.)Pennsylvania studies in human rightsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4240-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-262) and index.Front matter --Contents --Chapter 1. Indivisible, Interdependent, and Interrelated Human Rights --Chapter 2. Antecedents of the Universal Declaration --Chapter 3. International Guarantees and State Responsibility before the Universal Declaration --Chapter 4. From Declaration to Covenant --Chapter 5. Including Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights --Chapter 6. Division of the Covenant --Chapter 7. Indivisibility as Postcolonial Revisionism: 1952-1968 --Chapter 8. Indivisibility as Economic Justice: 1968-1986 --Chapter 9. Indivisibility as Restoration: 1986-2009 --Chapter 10. Indivisible Human Rights: Past and Future --Appendix: Covenants on Human Rights: Drafting Procedures and Timeline --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsHuman rights activists frequently claim that human rights are indivisible, and the United Nations has declared the indivisibility, interdependency, and interrelatedness of these rights to be beyond dispute. Yet in practice a significant divide remains between the two grand categories of human rights: civil and political rights, on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. To date, few scholars have critically examined how the notion of indivisibility has shaped the complex relationship between these two sets of rights. In Indivisible Human Rights, Daniel J. Whelan offers a carefully crafted account of the rhetoric of indivisibility. Whelan traces the political and historical development of the concept, which originated in the contentious debates surrounding the translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into binding treaty law as two separate Covenants on Human Rights. In the 1960's and 1970's, Whelan demonstrates, postcolonial states employed a revisionist rhetoric of indivisibility to elevate economic and social rights over civil and political rights, eventually resulting in the declaration of a right to development. By the 1990's, the rhetoric of indivisibility had shifted to emphasize restoration of the fundamental unity of human rights and reaffirm the obligation of states to uphold both major human rights categories-thus opening the door to charges of violations resulting from underdevelopment and poverty. As Indivisible Human Rights illustrates, the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that have little to do with promoting the rights of the individual. Drawing on scores of original documents, many of them long forgotten, Whelan lets the players in this drama speak for themselves, revealing the conflicts and compromises behind a half century of human rights discourse. Indivisible Human Rights will be welcomed by scholars and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding the realization of human rights.Pennsylvania studies in human rights.Human rightsHistorySocial rightsHistoryElectronic books.Human rightsHistory.Social rightsHistory.323.09Whelan Daniel J762025MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464133103321Indivisible human rights2467354UNINA