Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century

Strategies from Latin America

Mark Ungar editor Katherine Hite editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:9th Jul '13

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

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.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.

This is an excellent book on human rights as it pertains to the situation in Latin America. -- Paiso Jamakar Biz India Magazine

ISBN: 9781421410128

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm

Weight: 748g

424 pages