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Human rights
By Gold, Susan Dudley
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80504-811-7
- Publisher
- New York : Twenty-First Century Books, 1997.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1997
Gr 7-9 Gold traces the evolution of human rights protections, beginning with the efforts of J. Henri Dunant, a Swiss businessman who witnessed and publicized the horrors of war and worked to create the International Red Cross and the first Geneva Convention in 1864. The author then explains how the atrocities and abuses of modern warfare have increased the need for an expanded definition of human rights from the original protections for wounded combatants to fair treatment and opp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
