The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a "third basket" of human rights principles; and the Carter administration formally gave the United States a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245504
• ISBN13: 9780812245509
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"