Unisa Press
Against the World
South Africa and Human Rights at the United Nations, 1945-1961
| Author: | Jeremy Shearar |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-86888- 598-5 |
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About the book
A sophisticated and highly nuanced study which...offers new insight and understanding not only of South Africa’s constantly anomalous situation within the world body but of the domestic personalities and the reasons for their acting in an often apparently inexplicable way.’- Neville Botha, Professor of International Law, UNISA
Against the World is an in-depth investigation into the circumstances of South Africa’s steady isolation in the United Nations, from a respected member in 1945 to a ‘pariah’ in the early sixties.
The author examines Field-Marshall J.C. Smuts’s proposal in 1945 for the adoption of a Preamble to the United Nations Charter, tracks South Africa’s refusal to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, and looks at how global criticism against Apartheid increased in intensity, until in 1960 it culminated in calls from African members for economic and diplomatic sanctions. By 1961, when the study ends, South Africa had become isolated in the United Nations and relegated to a moral wilderness.
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- BOOK REVIEW Against the World: South Africa and Human Rights at the United Nations 1945-1961 - 2013-01-02 00:00:00.0