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Tells the ‘story’ of the historical development of the concept of human rights and their status in international law. It is divided into three main sections.
As the human rights story began on the domestic plane, the chapter starts by considering this (section 2). The focus is on the key developments since the seventeenth century, but in particular since the late eighteenth century. Section 3 turns to international law, examining it from the perspective of human rights over the period up to the Second World War. Finally, section 4 focuses on the efforts to create international human rights law in the 1940s, culminating with the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948.
9780199560257
17-38
Oxford University Press
Bates, Ed
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Moeckli, Daniel
Shah, Sangeeta
Sivakumaran, Sandesh
Harris, David
Bates, Ed
eb13de81-a252-429c-8975-169e2e5e39ad
Moeckli, Daniel
Shah, Sangeeta
Sivakumaran, Sandesh
Harris, David

Bates, Ed (2010) History. In, Moeckli, Daniel, Shah, Sangeeta, Sivakumaran, Sandesh and Harris, David (eds.) International Human Rights Law. Oxford, GB. Oxford University Press, pp. 17-38.

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Tells the ‘story’ of the historical development of the concept of human rights and their status in international law. It is divided into three main sections.
As the human rights story began on the domestic plane, the chapter starts by considering this (section 2). The focus is on the key developments since the seventeenth century, but in particular since the late eighteenth century. Section 3 turns to international law, examining it from the perspective of human rights over the period up to the Second World War. Finally, section 4 focuses on the efforts to create international human rights law in the 1940s, culminating with the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948.

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Published date: June 2010

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Local EPrints ID: 176615
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/176615
ISBN: 9780199560257
PURE UUID: 5cd6c2d3-c465-4b28-9fbd-b998f539df82

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Last modified: 10 Dec 2021 18:54

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Author: Ed Bates
Editor: Daniel Moeckli
Editor: Sangeeta Shah
Editor: Sandesh Sivakumaran
Editor: David Harris

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