Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Buchanan, Tom (1960-....)
Titre(s) : Amnesty International and human rights activism in postwar Britain, 1945-1977 [Texte imprimé] / Tom Buchanan, University of Oxford
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-343 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Human rights in history
Lien à la collection : Human rights in history
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 309-327. Index
"In this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war
Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually
came to acquire a common identity as "human rights activists". This was a slow process
whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from anti-fascism, anti-apartheid
and decolonisation to civil liberties and the peace movement, began to come together
under the banner of human rights. The launch of Amnesty International in 1961, and
its landmark winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 provided a model and inspiration
to many new activist movements in "the field of human rights", and helped to affect
major changes towards public and political attitudes towards human rights issues across
the globe"
Sujet(s) : Défense des droits de l'homme -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1945-1990
Amnesty international
Indice(s) Dewey :
323.094 1 (23e éd.) = Droits civils et politiques - Îles Britanniques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107127517 (rel.). - ISBN 1107127513 (erroné). - ISBN 9781107566552 (erroné).
- ISBN 110756655X (erroné). - ISBN 9781316422397 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468166062
Notice n° :
FRBNF46816606
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Dawn : 1934-50 ; Africa, decolonisation and human rights in the 1950s ; Political
imprisonment and human rights, 1945-64 ; The early years of Amnesty International,
1961-4 ; "The crisis of growth", Amnesty International 1964-68 ; 1968 : the UN year
for human rights ; Torture states : 1967-75 ; "All things come to those who wait"
: the later 1970s ; Conclusion: The winds of history.