LEADER 04995nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910463868403321 005 20211012023333.0 010 $a0-8122-2258-X 010 $a1-283-89642-7 010 $a0-8122-0532-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205329 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046673 035 $a(OCoLC)793341711 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576052 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810758 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12358862 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810758 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10833655 035 $a(PQKB)11081665 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605831 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376941 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605831 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10575366 035 $a(PQKB)11537780 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441612 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8331 035 $a(DE-B1597)449387 035 $a(OCoLC)806880714 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205329 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441612 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576052 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420892 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046673 100 $a20090714d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDecolonization and the evolution of international human rights$b[electronic resource] /$fRoland Burke 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 225 1 $aPennsylvania studies in human rights 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4219-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Politics of Decolonization and the Evolution of the International Human Rights Project --$tChapter 1. Human Rights and the Birth of the Third World: The Bandung Conference --$tChapter 2. "Transforming the End into the Means": The Third World and the Right to Self-Determination --$tChapter 3 .Putting the Stamps Back On: Apartheid, Anticolonialism, and the Accidental Birth of a Universal Right to Petition --$tChapter 4. "It Is Very Fitting": Celebrating Freedom in the Shah's Iran, the First World Conference on Human Rights, Tehran 1968 --$tChapter 5. "According to Their Own Norms of Civilization": The Rise of Cultural Relativism and the Decline of Human Rights --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the decades following the triumphant proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN General Assembly was transformed by the arrival of newly independent states from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This diverse constellation of states introduced new ideas, methods, and priorities to the human rights program. Their influence was magnified by the highly effective nature of Asian, Arab, and African diplomacy in the UN human rights bodies and the sheer numerical superiority of the so-called Afro-Asian bloc. Owing to the nature of General Assembly procedure, the Third World states dominated the human rights agenda, and enthusiastic support for universal human rights was replaced by decades of authoritarianism and an increasingly strident rejection of the ideas laid out in the Universal Declaration. In Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights, Roland Burke explores the changing impact of decolonization on the UN human rights program. By recovering the contributions of those Asian, African, and Arab voices that joined the global rights debate, Burke demonstrates the central importance of Third World influence across the most pivotal battles in the United Nations, from those that secured the principle of universality, to the passage of the first binding human rights treaties, to the flawed but radical step of studying individual pleas for help. The very presence of so many independent voices from outside the West, and the often defensive nature of Western interventions, complicates the common presumption that the postwar human rights project was driven by Europe and the United States. Drawing on UN transcripts, archives, and the personal papers of key historical actors, this book challenges the notion that the international rights order was imposed on an unwilling and marginalized Third World. Far from being excluded, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern diplomats were powerful agents in both advancing and later obstructing the promotion of human rights. 410 0$aPennsylvania studies in human rights. 606 $aDecolonization 606 $aHuman rights 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDecolonization. 615 0$aHuman rights. 676 $a323 700 $aBurke$b Roland$0512167 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463868403321 996 $aDecolonization and the evolution of international human rights$9764874 997 $aUNINA