In the decades following the triumphant proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN General Assembly was transformed by the arriva

This book advances practical protection of human rights, and challenge claims of western monopoly of human rights discourse.

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination dur

An innovative diplomatic and intellectual history of decolonization, post-colonial nation building and international human rights and development discourses, th

Based on previously inaccessible material from international archives, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence examines the relationship between emergin