This book challenges traditional accounts of the Third World's contribution to international human rights. It demonstrates that diplomats from Third World countries helped both to radicalize the UN human rights agenda in the heyday of decolonization and to undermine that agenda by advancing cultural relativism as an excuse for abuses in the 1970s.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (June 06, 2011)
Collection: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Format: EPUB
Page count: 240 pages
Protection: DRM
Language: English