{"id":141,"date":"2010-03-03T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T10:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/2010\/03\/03\/professor%e2%80%99s-book-examines-history-of-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T10:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T10:42:35","slug":"professors-book-examines-history-of-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2010\/03\/03\/professors-book-examines-history-of-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor\u2019s book examines history of human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Average people have helped to shape the human rights movement, Jean Quataert says in a new book about the development and impact of rights after World War II.<br \/>\n<em>Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics<\/em>, the latest book by the history professor, was released by the University of Pennsylvania Press.<br \/>\n\u201cOne of the book\u2019s major contributions is that it is a global study of the human rights machinery done essentially from the grass roots and through people\u2019s movements,\u201d Quataert said. \u201cI wanted to show what a difference average people make in global politics.\u201d<br \/>\nThe book takes the reader from the mid-20th century into the early 21st century, from the emergence of the human rights system in 1945 to the replacement of the United Nations\u2019 Human Rights Commission with a Human Rights Council in 2005. In between, Quataert embarks on an ambitious and thematic journey in which she establishes global contexts for the work of human rights advocates.<br \/>\nCase studies range from the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa to the dissidents of the Soviet Union to advocacy for gender, citizenship and socio-economic rights.<br \/>\nArticle by Eric Coker<br \/>\nTo read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.binghamton.edu\/news\/inside\/news.html?issue=2010feb25&amp;id=3\">http:\/\/www2.binghamton.edu\/news\/inside\/news.html?issue=2010feb25&amp;id=3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average people have helped to shape the human rights movement, Jean Quataert says in a new book about the development and impact of rights after World War II. Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics, the latest book by the history professor, was released by the University of Pennsylvania Press. \u201cOne of the book\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}