Advocating dignity : human rights mobilizations in global politics / Jean H. Quataert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. The New Moral Order: Between Human Dignity and Territorial Sovereignty -- 1. Raising the Bar, 1900-1949 -- Pt. I. An Emerging Human Rights Orthodoxy: The First Round -- 2. Cold War Politics and Human Rights Publics: The International Antiapartheid and Soviet Dissident Movements, 1952-90 -- 3. Mothers' Courage and U.N. Monitoring of Disappearance, 1973-83 -- Pt. II. The Debate Continues: Critics and New Mechanisms -- 4. The Gender Factor since the 1970s: Universality and the Private Sphere -- 5. Citizenship, Socioeconomic Rights, and the Courts in the Age of Transnational Migrations -- Pt. III. Human Rights at a Crossroads: Wars, Crimes, and Priorities -- 6. Ethnic Violence, Humanitarian Intervention, and Criminal Accountability in the 1990s -- 7. September 2001 and History -- Conclusion: Making a Difference.