TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubin,Neal S.
AU  - Flores,Roseanne L.
TI  - The Cambridge handbook of psychology and human rights
T2  - Cambridge handbooks in psychology
SN  - 9781108425636
AV  - BF 121 .C336 2020
U1  - 323.01/9 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - United Nations
KW  - General Assembly
KW  - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Human rights
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; School of Psychology
N2  - "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"--
ER  -