Bringing Human Rights Home: Into the Bright Sunshine. Dorothy Q. Thomas and others.
by Thomas, Dorothy Q; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 42Human Relations. Publisher: American Prospect, 2004ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Civil rights | Exceptionalism (Term) | Geneva Conventions | Human rights | International Criminal Court | International law | Prisoners -- Legal status | Rule of law | Torture | Treaties | United States -- Foreign relations | War on Terrorism (2001- )DDC classification: 050 Summary: "The most obvious value of human rights to the post-Holocaust world has been to set a limit on government power and shine a light on its abuses....The value of this new vision of a world governed by human rights has been less obvious to one of its original proponents: the United States." (AMERICAN PROSPECT) This article examines how "the United States might more fully embody the human-rights values of dignity, equality, and accountability that it helped to envision for the world more than 50 years ago."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.
Originally Published: Bringing Human Rights Home: Into the Bright Sunshine, Oct. 2004; pp. A1+.
"The most obvious value of human rights to the post-Holocaust world has been to set a limit on government power and shine a light on its abuses....The value of this new vision of a world governed by human rights has been less obvious to one of its original proponents: the United States." (AMERICAN PROSPECT) This article examines how "the United States might more fully embody the human-rights values of dignity, equality, and accountability that it helped to envision for the world more than 50 years ago."
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