'Today is human rights day': Ruth First, human rights and the United Nations

Barbara Harlow

Review of African Political Economy, 2014, vol. 41, issue 139, 125-133

Abstract: It is not well known that Ruth First found an opening to debates on the world stage by working as a consultant for the United Nations whilst she was still in South Africa and whilst in exile. The author describes the projects she was engaged on and her motivation in this work. She links Ruth's participation to the emergence of human rights discourse, seen as a means to condemn apartheid in South Africa, whilst also regarded sceptically.

Date: 2014
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