Introduction: human disasters: humanitarian rights and the transnational turn in the wake of the First World War 1. 'Rights, not charity': Rene Cassin and war victims 2. Justice and peace: Albert Thomas, the ILO and the dream of a transnational politics of social rights 3. The tragedy of being stateless: Fridtjof Nansen and the rights of refugees 4. The hungry and the sick: Herbert Hoover, the Russian famine, and the professionalization of humanitarian aid 5. Humanitarianism old and new: Eglantyne Jebb and children's rights Conclusion: human dignity: from humanitarian rights to human rights Bibliographical essay Bibliography.
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