The Routledge history of human rights 9781138784338, 1138784338

Table of contents :
An open-ended and contingent history of human rights / Jean H. Quataert, Lora Wildenthal --
John Anderson --
slave, refugee, and freedom fighter: a human rights campaign in the age of empire / Caroline Shaw --
Investigating and ameliorating atrocities in the nineteenth century: international commissions of inquiry in the Balkans (1876-80) / Benjamin E. Brockman-Hawe --
Reclaiming Congo reform for the history of human rights / Mairi S. Macdonald --
The Red Cross and the laws of war, 1863-1949: international rights activism before human rights / Kimberly A. Lowe --
United in their quest for peace? Transnational women activists between the World Wars / Marie Sandell --
The "rights of man" and sex equality: international human rights discourses in the 1930s/ Regula Ludi --
Social and economic rights: the struggle for equivalent protection / Claire-Michelle Smyth --
Islam and UN human rights treaty ratification in the Middle East: the impact of international law on diplomacy / Rachel A. Georce --
When the war came: the child rights convention and the conflation of human rights and the laws of war / Linde Lindkvist --
"Why then call it the declaration of human rights?" The failures of universal human rights in colonial Africa's internationally supervised territories / Meredith Terretta --
Decolonization, development, and identity: the evolution of the anticolonial human rights critique, 1948-78 / Roland Burke --
"When you are weak, you have to stick to principles": Botswana and anticolonialism in human rights history / James Christian Kirby --
The International Labour Organization and the gender of economic rights / Eileen Boris and Jill Jensen --
Human rights movements and the fall of the Berlin wall: explaining the peaceful revolution of 1989 / Ned Richardson-Little --
Human rights in China: resisting orthodoxy / Pitman B. Potter --
Continuity and change in US human rights policy / Sarah B. Snyder --
The universality of human rights: early NGO practices in the Arab world / Catherine Baylin Duryea --
How women become human: Chilean contributions to women's human rights from dictatorship to the twenty-first century / Jadwica E. Pieper Mooney --
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo: from dictatorship to democracy / Jennieer Adair --
Asma Jahangir: personifying the human rights debate in Pakistan / Aeiya Shehrbano Zia --
Freedom of religion and the new diversity: case studies from Canada / Lori G. Beaman --
Indigenous activism for human rights: a case study from Australia / Rachel Standfield and Lynette Russell --
The international LGBT rights movement: an introductory history / Laura A. Belmonte --
Rights in isolation: lessons on public health and human rights from leprosy and HIV in the Pacific Islands / Adam R. Houston --
Decentralization and public-private diplomacy in the business and human rights field / Steven S. Nam --
The selectivity of universal jurisdiction: the history of transnational human rights prosecutions in Latin America and Spain / Ulrike Capdepon --
Militarized sexual violence and campaigns for redress / Vera Mackie --
Solidarity rights and the common heritage of humanity / Anca Claudia Prodan --
Intellectual property law and human rights / Steven Wilf --
Caged at the border: immigration detention and the denial of human rights to asylum seekers and other migrants / Stephanie J. Silverman and Petra Molnar --
Archiving human rights in Latin America: transitional justice and shifting visions of political change/ Michelle Carmody --
Emotion in the history of human rights: a case study of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights / Christine Lavrence --
From the classroom to the public: engaging students in human rights history / Jessica M. Frazier.