Description
Book SynopsisDaniel Whelan illustrates how the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that have little to do with protecting the rights of the individual. Drawing on scores of original documents, he reveals the conflicts and compromises behind a half century of human rights discourse.
Trade Review"Daniel J. Whelan . . . aims to understand changing rhetoric about human rights' 'indivisibility'-more specifically, the indivisibility of civil and political rights, on one hand, and economic, social and cultural rights, on the other. . . . Whelan's book, with its painstaking attention to documentary sources, is a model of close historical reading and provides an important account of the concept of indivisibility." *
American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Indivisible, Interdependent, and Interrelated Human Rights
Chapter 2. Antecedents of the Universal Declaration
Chapter 3. International Guarantees and State Responsibility before the Universal Declaration
Chapter 4. From Declaration to Covenant
Chapter 5. Including Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Chapter 6. Division of the Covenant
Chapter 7. Indivisibility as Postcolonial Revisionism: 1952-1968
Chapter 8. Indivisibility as Economic Justice: 1968-1986
Chapter 9. Indivisibility as Restoration: 1986-2009
Chapter 10. Indivisible Human Rights: Past and Future
Appendix: Covenants on Human Rights: Drafting Procedures and Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
