Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies from Latin America - Hardcover

 
9781421410128: Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies from Latin America
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1421410125 ISBN 13: 9781421410128
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

Synopsis

A historical look at the fight for human rights in the last century with applications to conditions today.

These essays take a much-needed look at the course of human rights strategies rooted in the last century’s struggles against brutally repressive dictators. Those struggles continue today across Latin America. Augmented by the pursuit of broader political, cultural, labor, and environmental rights, they hold accountable a much wider cast of national governments, local governments, international agencies, and multinational corporations.

In Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century, some of the Western Hemisphere’s leading human rights experts shape and bolster new approaches, from the concepts of rights to transnational efforts, by placing the struggle for rights in historical and comparative perspective. The contributors provide an historical framework, describe formal and legal institutions, and discuss the citizens’ movements and conceptions of citizenship that produce distinct kinds of political identities and struggles.

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About the Author

Mark Ungar is a professor of political science and criminal justice at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is author of Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America.

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Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1421410125
ISBN 13 
9781421410128
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
424
Editor
Hite Katherine, Ungar Mark