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Globalization and Human Rights

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Indeed, before World War II, except for minor exceptions, individuals had no rights that could be asserted against the state in the context of international law. World War II changed the world's perspective. The Nazi experience and the Holocaust revealed the horror that could result from a legal system in which the individual counted for nothing. As the nations met to draft the U.N. Charter, there was a renewed search for immutable principles to protect humanity against the brutality the world had just witnessed. What developed and became embodied in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was an international morality based on the autonomy of the individual protected by international law. Thus, the very first Article of the U.N. Charter states that the very purpose of the Charter is to maintain peace and promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.' The U.N. Charter was followed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights4 ("Declaration" or "Universal Declaration") in 1948. The Declaration is a Bill of Rights for the world. Its fundamental concept is asserted at the beginning: "Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world." The Declaration then sets forth the basic civil, political, economic, and social human rights for civilization.

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KP 1 BRY g

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Los angeles : University of california press., 2002

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x, 311 hlm. : tabel. ; 23 cm.

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English

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KP 1

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Hak asasi manusia
Globalisasi

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