The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3 Volume Hardback Set

This indexed collection documents the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This collection of documents associated with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights lays bare the thinking behind the Declaration's text. Given the seminal role of the Declaration in modern human rights law, an awareness of its drafting is crucial to understanding the scope of fundamental rights.A collection of United Nations documents associated with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these volumes facilitate research into the scope of, meaning of and intent behind the instrument's provisions. It permits an examination of the various drafts of what became the thirty articles of the Declaration, including one of the earliest documents – a compilation of human rights provisions from national constitutions, organised thematically. The documents are organised chronologically and thorough thematic indexing facilitates research into the origins of specific rights and norms. It is also annotated in order to provide information relating to names, places, events and concepts that might have been familiar in the late 1940s but are today more obscure.