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

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

Label

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

Title remainder

from the Great War to the Universal Declaration

Statement of responsibility

Jay Winter and Antoine Prost

Language

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"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

CAMBR

Dewey number

341.4/8

Index

index present

LC call number

KJV251.5.C37

LC item number

P7613 2013eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Human rights in history

Context

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

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.

Context

Work of