Volume 46, Number 9 · May 20, 1999
Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis
By Michael Ignatieff
The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen
by Paul Gordon Lauren
University of Pennsylvania Press, 385 pp., $29.95 (paper)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond
edited by Yael Danieli, by Elsa Stamatopoulou, by Clarence J. Dias, foreword by Kofi Annan, epilogue by Mary Robinson
Baywood, 465 pp., $45.00
NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine
by William Korey
St. Martin's, 638 pp., $39.95
The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights
edited by Joanne R. Bauer, by Daniel A. Bell
Cambridge University Press, 394 pp., $21.95 (paper)
Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims?
edited by Carrie Gustafson, by Peter Juviler
M.E. Sharpe, 209 pp., $23.95 (paper)
In the Lion's Den: A Shocking Account of Persecution and Martyrdom of Christians Today and How We Should Respond
by Nina Shea, foreword by Chuck Colson, afterword by Ravi Zacharius
Broadman and Holman, 126 pp., $9.99 (paper)
United States of America: Rights for All
by Amnesty International USA
Amnesty International USA, 153 pp., $12.95
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting and Intent
by Johannes Morsink
University of Pennsylvania Press, 378 pp., $49.95
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence
by Martha Minow
Beacon, 214 pp., $23.00
War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice
by Aryeh Neier
Times Books, 286 pp., $25.00
Fifty years after its proclamation, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has become the sacred text of what Elie Wiesel has called a 'world-wide secular religion.'[1] UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called the Declaration the 'yardstick by which we measure human progress.' Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer has described it as 'the essential document, the touchstone, the creed of humanity that surely sums up all other creeds directing human behaviour.'[2]
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