TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neier,Aryeh
TI  - The international human rights movement : : a history 
T2  - Human rights and crimes against humanity
SN  - 069120098X (paperback)
AV  - JC 571 N397i 2020
U1  - 323 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Derechos humanos
KW  - History
KW  - Historia
KW  - Derechos civiles
KW  - Human rights advocacy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The movement -- Putting natural law principles into practice -- What are rights? -- International human rights law -- International humanitarian law -- Defying communism -- Rights on the other side of the Cold War divide -- Amnesty international -- Human rights watch -- The worldwide movement -- Accountability -- Rights after 9/11 -- Going forward
N2  - "An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justice. Since its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of international relations and foreign policy, particularly in debates regarding foreign policy's role in alleviating global poverty. Henry Shue asks: Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? Shue argues that subsistence rights, along with security rights and liberty rights, serve as the ground of all other human rights. This classic work, now available in a thoroughly updated fortieth-anniversary edition, includes a substantial new chapter by the author examining how the accelerating transformation of our climate progressively undermines the bases of subsistence like sufficient water, affordable food, and housing safe from forest-fires and sea-level rise. Climate change threatens basic rights"--
ER  -