Human Rights Education: Forging an Academic Discipline

by Sarita Cargas

In tracing the origins of the modern human-rights movement, historians typically point to two periods: the 1940s, in which decade the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was ratified by the United Nations General Assembly; and the 1970s, during which numerous human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), most notably Amnesty International and M?decins Sans Fronti?res, came into existence. It was also in the 1970s, Sarita Cargas observes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812251792
• ISBN13: 9780812251791
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"