Latin American Human Rights Research, 1980-1989
Author | : Steven C. Perkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Steven C. Perkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steven C. Perkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sonia Cardenas |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2012-06-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 081220154X |
For the last half century, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism and racism, and other evils. The region has also experienced dramatic—if uneven—human rights improvements. The accounts of how Latin America's people have dealt with the persistent threats to their fundamental rights offer lessons for people around the world. Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope is the first textbook to provide a comprehensive introduction to the human rights issues facing an area that constitutes more than half of the Western Hemisphere. 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. 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. 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 addressing the colonial and ideological underpinnings of human rights abuses, emerging campaigns for disability and sexuality rights, and regional dynamics relating to the International Criminal Court. Engagingly written and fully illustrated, Human Rights in Latin America creates an important niche among human rights and Latin American textbooks. 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.
Author | : Alexander Wilde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780268193102 |
These essays explore the impact of religion and politics on human rights and violence in contemporary Latin America.
Author | : Eduardo Lora |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2006-10-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0821365762 |
Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.
Author | : John J. Tobin |
Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : A publication of the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1993-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309048397 |
This book examines issues concerning how developing countries will have to prepare for demographic and epidemiologic change. Much of the current literature focuses on the prevalence of specific diseases and their economic consequences, but a need exists to consider the consequences of the epidemiological transition: the change in mortality patterns from infectious and parasitic diseases to chronic and degenerative ones. Among the topics covered are the association between the health of children and adults, the strong orientation of many international health organizations toward infant and child health, and how the public and private sectors will need to address and confront the large-scale shifts in disease and demographic characteristics of populations in developing countries.
Author | : Alexandra Barahona de Brito |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1997-02-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0191521116 |
This insightful new work analyses the attempts by Chile and Uruguay to resolve the human rights violations conflicts inherited from military dictatorships. The author focuses on how the post-transitional democratic governments dealt with demmands for official recognition of the truth about the human rights violations committed by the military regimes and for punishment of those guilty of committing or ordering those offences. Alexandra DeBrito sheds light on the political conditions which permitted - or prevented - the politics of truth-telling and justice under these successor regimes. This is the first study to make comparative assessment of human rights abuse in Uruguay and Chile in this way. The author contends that the experiences of these countries offer formative examples of attempts to tackle fundamental aspects of the policies of transition and democratization. She makes an original contribution to our understanding of the key political, legal, and moral issues involved.
Author | : Armin von Bogdandy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2017-06-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0192515462 |
This ground-breaking collection of essays outlines and explains the unique development of Latin American jurisprudence. It introduces the idea of the Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina (ICCAL), an original Latin American path of transformative constitutionalism, to an Anglophone audience for the first time. It charts the key developments that have transformed the region and assesses the success of the constitutional projects that followed a period of authoritarian regimes in Latin America. Coined by scholars who have been documenting, conceptualizing, and comparing the development of Latin American public law for more than a decade, the term ICCAL encompasses themes that cross national borders and legal fields, taking in constitutional law, administrative law, general public international law, regional integration law, human rights, and investment law. Not only does this volume map the legal landscape, it also suggests measures to improve society via due legal process and a rights-based, supranational and regionally rooted constitutionalism. The editors contend that with the strengthening of democracy, the rule of law, and human rights, common problems such as the exclusion of wide sectors of the population from having a say in government, as well as corruption, hyper-presidentialism, and the weak normativity of the law can be combatted more effectively in future.