Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights /

Burke, Roland.

Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights / Roland Burke. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010. - 234 p. ; 24 cm. - Pennsylvania studies in human rights . - Pennsylvania studies in human rights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human rights and the birth of the third world : the Bandung Conference -- "Transforming the end into the means" : the third world and the right to self-determination -- Putting the stamps back on : apartheid, anticolonialism, and the accidental birth of a universal right to petition -- "It is very fitting" : celebrating freedom in the Shah's Iran, the first world conference on human rights, Tehran 1968 -- "According to their own norms of civilization" : the rise of cultural relativism and the decline of human rights.

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Human rights.
Décolonization.
Decolonilisation
Postcolonialism

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