A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human RightsRandom House, 2001 - 333 páginas A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed United nations and brought into being by an extraordinary group of men and women who knew, like the framers of the Declaration of Independence, that they were making history. They worked against the clock, the brief window between the end of World War II and the deep freeze of the cold war, to forget the founding document of the modern rights movement. A distinguished professor of international law, Mary Ann Glendon was given exclusive access to personal diaries and unpublished memoirs of key participants. An outstanding work of narrative history, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial moment in Eleanor Roosevelt's life and in world history. |
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... principles so basic that no nation would wish openly to disavow them . They wove those principles into a unified document that quickly displaced all antecedents as the principal model for the rights in- struments in force in the world ...
... principles so basic that no nation would wish openly to disavow them . They wove those principles into a unified document that quickly displaced all antecedents as the principal model for the rights in- struments in force in the world ...
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... principles are some- times framed as obligations of society and the state rather than entitle- ments of individuals . With hindsight , it is perhaps regrettable that the framers , in dealing with these provisions , did not adopt the ...
... principles are some- times framed as obligations of society and the state rather than entitle- ments of individuals . With hindsight , it is perhaps regrettable that the framers , in dealing with these provisions , did not adopt the ...
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... principles were flowing into the capillaries of the world's legal systems . Quite independently of legal enforceability , those principles were help- ing human rights organizations to articulate their aims , to spotlight abuses , and to ...
... principles were flowing into the capillaries of the world's legal systems . Quite independently of legal enforceability , those principles were help- ing human rights organizations to articulate their aims , to spotlight abuses , and to ...
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The Longing for Freedom | 3 |
Madam Chairman | 21 |
A Rocky Start | 35 |
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