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What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ide
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The Breakthrough
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Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
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Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mytholog
Human Rights for the 21st Century
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A new moral, ethical, and legal framework is needed for international human rights law. Never in human history has there been such an elaborate international sy