René Cassin and human rights : from the Great War to the Universal Declaration

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Title
"René Cassin and human rights : from the Great War to the Universal Declaration"
Statement of Responsibility
Jay Winter and Antoine Prost
Publisher
  • Cambridge University Press
Publication Year
  • 2013
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback
  • : paperback
Other Title
  • René Cassin et les droits de l'homme

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Originally published in French by Fayard, 2011

Summary: "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 70 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" -- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index

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