Synopsis
This study looks at the historic and unique role played by NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in helping to bring about compliance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 50 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt, its principal architect, predicted that a "curious grapevine" would carry its message behind barbed wire and stone walls.;This volume tells the story of how NGOs became the "grapevine" Eleanor Roosevelt anticipated: sensitizing mankind's conscience about violations of human rights, "shaming" the most notorious abusers, creating the international machinery and mechanisms to bring about implementation of the Declaration, laying the groundwork for the destruction of the Soviet empire, as well as of the apartheid system in South Africa, and establishing the principle of accountability for crimes against humanity. The notion of human rights has progressed from being a marginal part of international relations in the mid-20th century to stand in the late 1990s as a critical element in diplomatic discourse.
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Review
'William Korey's valuable study highlights the important role played by a new generation of nongovernmental organizations....' - New York Review of Books
'It is well worth reading.' - American Foreign Policy Interests
'William Korey's valuable study highlights the important role played by a new generation of nongovernmental organizations....' - New York Review of Books
'It is well worth reading.' - American Foreign Policy Interests
About the Author
William Korey is a prolific writer of articles for popular and scholarly journals, and for the op-ed pages of such newspapers as The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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