POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Raphael Lemkin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mark Mazower
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The strange triumph of human rights, 1933-1950. the historical. This article links the origins of the un s commitment to human rights to the wartime decision to abandon the interwar system of an international regime for the protection of minority rights. After 1918, the league of nations developed a comprehensive machinery for guaranteeing the national minorities of eastern europe. But by 1940 the league s policies were widely regarded as a failure and the coalition of forces which had supported them after the first world war had disintegrated. German abuse of the system after 1933, and the third reich s use of ethnic. German groups as fifth columns to undermine the versailles settlement were cited by east. European politicians as sufficient justification for a new approach which would combine mass expulsion, on the one hand, with a new international doctrine of individual human rights on the other.
