JIB/JAB - Episode 32: Boyd Van Dijk on the Making of the Geneva Conventions
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Human Rights Thinking in the 1940s
Human rights thinking is very much on the table at the same time we don't see human rights as a text or as a concept that's much a concept it is as a as a discourse in human eternal law text from the 1940s right you don't see in the Geneva 40-9 direct reference to human rights unless if you go back a little bit time you see the earlier graphs you see references to human rights but it disappears from the text so that was a puzzle that had to solve there. British position very keen on creating gaps between these different fields of law because those gaps could have used to put in resistance fighters they were challenging British rule for instance in Malaya and other places.
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