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René Cassin and Human Rights: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration

By Jay Winter , Antoine Prost

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
1107655706, 9781107655706
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5833098 bytes)
Series
Human Rights in History
Pages
426\426
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-12-18 17:46:10

Description

Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first seventy years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project.

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