In this definitive new account of the emergence of Human Rights Activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as \'Human Rights activists\'.
The launch of Amnesty.
This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from anti-fascism, anti-apartheid and decolonisation to civil liberties and the peace movement, began to come together under the banner of Human rights.
In this definitive new account of the emergence of Human Rights Activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as \'Human Rights activists\'