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020 _a9781108442817
040 _cLCIC LIBRARY
082 _aGR 323.019 C14
245 4 _aThe Cambridge handbook of psychology and human rights /
260 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2020.
300 _a 1 online resource (xxxi, 627 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
520 _a"Two sentiments governed the post-war world: fear and hope. Fear of slipping into an unimaginable, worldwide atomic confrontation even more violent and destructive than the Second World War; and hope that, if the people of world could only acknowledge their common dignity, nations might find a way to perpetuate peace for the foreseeable future. These two feelings dominated the debates that gave birth to both the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In late April 1946, shrouded in the shadow of a horrific world war, nine delegates, selected for their individual expertise, gathered in New York at Hunter College to discuss what action the four-month old United Nations should take to advance "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms," as set forth in the UN Charter (Art. 55). It was"-- Provided by publisher
650 _aHuman rights
650 _aUnited Nations. General Assembly
650 _aPsychology
700 _aNeal S. Rubin
_eEditor
700 _aRoseanne L. Flores
_eEditor
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_cGR
999 _c1937
_d1937