Browsing Anthropology and Sociology by Author "Allis, Sarah"

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Human Rights Then and Now: Tracing the Changes in Human Rights Discourse from the Creation of the United Declaration of Human Rights to the Present

Allis, Sarah (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2012)

This thesis looks at the growth and changes of the idea of human rights from 1945 to the present by examining international human rights organizations and major actors within the field and how they responded to particular ...
Tracing the Changes in Human Rights Discourse from the Creation of the United Declaration of Human Rights to the Present

Allis, Sarah (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)

The idea of human rights has been around since long before the United Declaration of Human Rights, with many historians tracing it back to the Hammurabi Code of late-18th Century BCE. Our modern idea of human rights though,- ...