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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Visions and Visionaries | |
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| My Brother's and Sister's Keeper: Visions and the Origins of Human Rights | |
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| Religious Visions | |
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| Philosophical Visions | |
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| Traditional Practices and Ideas of a Very Different Sort | |
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| Visions-and Reality | |
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| To Protect Humanity and Defend Justice: Early International Efforts | |
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| To Free the Enslaved | |
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| To Assist the Exploited | |
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| To Care for the Wounded | |
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| To Protect the Persecuted | |
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| Entering the Twentieth Century: Visions, War, Revolutions, and Peacemaking | |
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| Modernization, Internationalization, and Visions of Rights | |
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| War, Revolutions, and Rights | |
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| Peacemaking and Human Rights | |
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| The Covenant: Rights Proclaimed and Rights Rejected | |
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| Opportunities and Challenges: Visions and Rights Between the Wars | |
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| A Flourishing of Visions | |
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| Opportunities for New Departures | |
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| Persistent Problems and Challenges | |
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| The Gathering Storm | |
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| A �People's War�: The Crusade of World War II | |
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| War, Genocide, and Self-Reflections | |
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| Crusaders, Visions, and Proposals | |
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| Human Rights Versus National Sovereignty in Postwar Planning | |
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| Opposition from the Great Powers | |
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| A �People's Peace�: Peace and a Charter with Human Rights | |
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| Insisting on a Peace with Rights | |
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| Politics and Diplomacy at the San Francisco Conference | |
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| The Charter of the United Nations | |
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| Differing Reactions and Assessments | |
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| Proclaiming a Vision: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| The Revolution Begins | |
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| Challenging Questions of Philosophy | |
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| Difficult Problems of Politics | |
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| The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Transforming Visions into Reality: The First Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration | |
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| Extending Rights and Setting Standards | |
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| Protecting Rights Through Implementation | |
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| Promoting Rights | |
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| Expanding Activities and Enhancing Rights | |
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| The Continuing Evolution | |
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| International Law, the Responsibility to Protect, and Challenges to Sovereignty | |
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| Globalization, Development, Terrorism-and Torture | |
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| New Human Rights Institutions and Organizations | |
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| Technology and Political Will | |
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| Toward the Future | |
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| The Nature and Power of Visions | |
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| People of Vision and Action | |
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| Forces and Events of Consequence | |
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| Process, Politics, and Perspective | |
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| The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |