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Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

Title : Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
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Rating : 4.31 (912 Votes)
Asin : 0812221524
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 264 Pages
Publish Date : 2016-07-04
Language : English

Ample supplementary resources—including discussion questions, interdisciplinary reading lists, filmographies, online resources, internship opportunities, and instructor assignments—make this an especially valuable text for use in human rights courses.. For the last half century, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism and racism, and other evils. Organized by three pivotal topics—human rights violations, reform, and accountability—this book offers an authoritative synthesis of research on human rights on the continent. Leading human rights researcher and educator Sonia Cardenas brings together regional examples of both terror and hope, emphasizing the dualities inherent in human rights struggles. From historical accounts of abuse to successful transnational campaigns and legal battles, Human Rights in Latin America explores the tensions underlying a vast range of human rights initiatives. In addition to surveying the roles of the United States, relatives of the disappeared, and truth commissions, Cardenas covers newer ground in

It is a text that demands serious attention."—Carrie Booth Walling, Human Rights Quarterly"This is a book that can satisfy even the most demanding instructors .Cardenas's analysis is always balanced, but at the same time she makes her points convincingly and forcefully." Cesar Seveso, H-Net"Through this book Cardenas's voice emerges as that of a determined but clear-eyed optimist, willing to confront the dark realities of politics and power but inclining toward what another Latin Americanist, Albert Hirschman, adopted as 'a bias f

Sonia Cardenas is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Human Rights Program at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. . She is the author of Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press

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