The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values
Introduction 1. 'Power carries its own conviction' the early rise and fall of human rights, 1945 60 2. 'The problem of freedom' the United Nations and decolonization, 1960 1 3. From Jamaica with law: the rekindling of international human rights, 1962 7 4. The making of a precedent: racial discrimination and international human rights law, 1962 6 5. 'The hymn of hate' the failed convention on elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, 1962 7 6. 'So bitter a year for human rights' 1968 and the UN International Year for Human Rights 7. 'To cope with the flux of the future' human rights and the Helsinki Final Act, 1962 75 8. The presence of the disappeared, 1968 93 Conclusion.