Constructing reason: human rights and the democratization of the United Nations.

From: Social Forces | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Prior to 1945 no international covenant acknowledged human rights or the morality that underpinned those rights as critical elements of peace or as goals to be sought by sovereign national governments. Even the UN Charter, which includes seven references to human rights, was not crafted with individual or communal rights as a central preoccupation of the United Nations. Rather, the new United Nations was meant to maintain peace through the concerted political and military effort of the world's great powers. However, between the UN's founding and the current moment, the world ...

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