Human Rights Violations In Latin America

Author : Sonia Cardenas
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812201543

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Human Rights in Latin America by Sonia Cardenas Pdf

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 : Edward L. Cleary
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040074570

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The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America by Edward L. Cleary Pdf

Cleary examines the origins, spread, and results of human rights movements in Latin America, and he analyzes the mark such movements have made in world politics. He shows the enormous difficulties encountered by fledgling grassroots groups which first challenged military dictatorships over the disappeared, detention, torture, and pervasive repression. He chronicles the amazingly dynamic growth of human rights organizations, affecting democratic processes in Latin America and foreign policy in the United States. This book is particularly important because it establishes, for the first time, a record of why, how, where, and when the concept of human rights—not long ago absent as a practical concept—generates so powerful a Latin American response. The alliances so formed are shown to evoke continued popular support and to effect on-going fundamental changes in Latin America. An important survey to all scholars, researchers, and students of human rights and political affairs in Latin America.

Author : Elizabeth Lira,Marcela Cornejo,Germán Morales
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030975425

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Human Rights Violations in Latin America by Elizabeth Lira,Marcela Cornejo,Germán Morales Pdf

A timely contribution to the study of peace psychology in Latin America, this volume describes clinical, psychosocial, and community interventions with victims from Mexico to Chile from the 1970s onward. Chapters analyze how to conceptualize complex processes such as the appropriation of children and political repression, raising psychological, juridical, and political implications for the victims, their families, human rights organizations, and society. Also included are studies and analyses of political processes in countries currently undergoing crises such as Venezuela and Colombia and the challenges posed by the peace process from a political psychology perspective. All authors present the results of studies or clinical cases illustrating creative methodologies and practices in different contexts. This book provides the context for differences in the victims' damages and the treatment approaches and methodologies adopted in each case. The authors outline psychological perspectives grounded in ethical and professional choices based on recognizing people's dignity while seeking rehabilitation and reparations for victims, families, and communities. It paves the way for reparations and rehabilitation, and ultimately to the establishment of democracy and peace in this part of the world. Readers will benefit from understanding the relationship between mental health and human rights understanding ethical and professional dimensions a broadened knowledge of working with victims

Author : Jeffrey Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521514361

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Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America by Jeffrey Davis Pdf

This book studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice. Their struggles show that legal justice is a multifaceted process, the overarching purpose of which is to restore human dignity and prevent further violence. Uncovering, revealing, and proving the truth are essential elements of legal justice, and are also powerful tools to activate the process. When faced with stubborn impunity at home, victims, families, and advocates can carry on their work for legal justice by bringing cases in courts in other countries or in the Inter-American human rights system. These extra-territorial courts can jumpstart the process of legal justice at home. Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America examines the political and legal struggle through the lens of the human story at the heart of these cases.

Author : Cath Collins
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271036878

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Post-transitional Justice by Cath Collins Pdf

"Analyzes how activists, legal strategies, and judicial receptivity to human rights claims are constructing new accountability outcomes for human rights violations in Chile and El Salvador"--Provided by publisher.

Author : E. Skaar
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230617492

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Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Latin America by E. Skaar Pdf

This comparative analysis, focusing on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, explores the complex relationship between executive politics and judicial action, showing that judicial independence is a crucial factor in prosecution. It will engage Latin Americanists as well as all who are concerned with justice and human rights around the world.

Author : Elizabeth Jelin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429720673

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Constructing Democracy by Elizabeth Jelin Pdf

In this pathbreaking contribution to debates about human rights, democracy, and society, distinguished social scientists from Latin America and the United States move beyond questions of state terror, violence, and similar abuses to embrace broader concepts of human rights: citizenship, identity, civil society, racism, gender discrimination, and po

Author : Laurie S. Wiseberg,Harry M. Scoble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UOM:39015078317453

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Human Rights Directory, Latin America, Africa, Asia by Laurie S. Wiseberg,Harry M. Scoble Pdf

Author : Enrique Desmond Arias,Daniel M. Goldstein
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822392033

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Violent Democracies in Latin America by Enrique Desmond Arias,Daniel M. Goldstein Pdf

Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of violence contrasts starkly with governmental efforts to extend civil, political, and legal rights to all citizens, and it is invoked as evidence of the failure of Latin American countries to achieve true democracy. The contributors to this collection take the more nuanced view that violence is not a social aberration or the result of institutional failure; instead, it is intimately linked to the institutions and policies of economic liberalization and democratization. The contributors—anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians—explore how individuals and institutions in Latin American democracies, from the rural regions of Colombia and the Dominican Republic to the urban centers of Brazil and Mexico, use violence to impose and contest notions of order, rights, citizenship, and justice. They describe the lived realities of citizens and reveal the historical foundations of the violence that Latin America suffers today. One contributor examines the tightly woven relationship between violent individuals and state officials in Colombia, while another contextualizes violence in Rio de Janeiro within the transnational political economy of drug trafficking. By advancing the discussion of democratic Latin American regimes beyond the usual binary of success and failure, this collection suggests more sophisticated ways of understanding the challenges posed by violence, and of developing new frameworks for guaranteeing human rights in Latin America. Contributors: Enrique Desmond Arias, Javier Auyero, Lilian Bobea, Diane E. Davis, Robert Gay, Daniel M. Goldstein, Mary Roldán, Todd Landman, Ruth Stanley, María Clemencia Ramírez

Author : Elin Skaar,Jemima Garcia-Godos,Cath Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317526209

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Transitional Justice in Latin America by Elin Skaar,Jemima Garcia-Godos,Cath Collins Pdf

This book addresses current developments in transitional justice in Latin America – effectively the first region to undergo concentrated transitional justice experiences in modern times. Using a comparative approach, it examines trajectories in truth, justice, reparations, and amnesties in countries emerging from periods of massive violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The book examines the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, developing and applying a common analytical framework to provide a systematic, qualitative and comparative analysis of their transitional justice experiences. More specifically, the book investigates to what extent there has been a shift from impunity towards accountability for past human rights violations in Latin America. Using ‘thick’, but structured, narratives – which allow patterns to emerge, rather than being imposed – the book assesses how the quality, timing and sequencing of transitional justice mechanisms, along with the context in which they appear, have mattered for the nature and impact of transitional justice processes in the region. Offering a new approach to assessing transitional justice, and challenging many assumptions in the established literature, this book will be of enormous benefit to scholars and others working in this area.

Author : Jeffery Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107516358

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Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America by Jeffery Davis Pdf

This book studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice. Their struggles show that legal justice is a multifaceted process, the overarching purpose of which is to restore human dignity and prevent further violence. Uncovering, revealing, and proving the truth are essential elements of legal justice, and are also powerful tools to activate the process. When faced with stubborn impunity at home, victims, families, and advocates can carry on their work for legal justice by bringing cases in courts in other countries or in the Inter-American human rights system. These extra-territorial courts can jumpstart the process of legal justice at home. Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America examines the political and legal struggle through the lens of the human story at the heart of these cases.

Author : Elizabeth Jelin,Eric Hershberg
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037439315

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Constructing Democracy by Elizabeth Jelin,Eric Hershberg Pdf

Comprises 12 essays which cover the the adjustment of the armed forces to democracy, human rights in democratization processes, the Latin American human rights network, the looting of democratic discourse by the Guatemalan military, citizenship in democracy, indigenous rights, racial and sex discrimination, and violence in the Latin American democratic transition.

Author : Malayna Raftopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351135610

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Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America by Malayna Raftopoulos Pdf

This book focuses on the issues of global environmental injustice and human rights violations and explores the scope and limits of the potential of human rights to influence environmental justice. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective on contemporary development discussions, analysing some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental and human rights practices in Latin America. The contributors examine how the extraction and exploitation of natural resources and the further commodification of nature have affected local communities in the region and how these policies have impacted on the promotion and protection of human rights as communities struggle to defend their rights and territories. The book analyses the emergence of transnational activism in the context of collective action organised around socio-environmental conflicts, the infringement of basic human rights and the emergence of alternative and sometimes conflicting development models. Furthermore, it critically discusses why governments are often willing to override their commitments to sustainability and human rights to promote their development agenda. The chapters originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of Human Rights.

Author : Sonia Cardenas,Rebecca K. Root
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512822663

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Human Rights in Latin America by Sonia Cardenas,Rebecca K. Root Pdf

For decades, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism, racism, and inequality. The region has also experienced dramatic—if uneven—human rights improvements, shedding light on the politics of transformation. 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 provides a comprehensive introduction to the human rights issues facing an area that constitutes more than half of the Western Hemisphere. This second edition brings together regional case studies and thematic chapters to explore cutting-edge issues and developments in the field. From historical accounts of abuse to successful transnational campaigns and legal battles, Human Rights in Latin America explores the dynamics 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, Sonia Cardenas and Rebecca Root cover newer ground in addressing the colonial and ideological underpinnings of human rights abuses, emerging campaigns for gender and sexuality rights, and regional dynamics relating to the International Criminal Court. Engagingly written and fully illustrated, Human Rights in Latin America fills 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 : Mónica Serrano,Vesselin Popovski
Publisher : UN
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822036459840

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Human Rights Regimes in the Americas by Mónica Serrano,Vesselin Popovski Pdf

The Americas have witnessed considerable progress in the field of human rights. Although painful legacies persist, large-scale, systematic human rights violations of the kind common during Latin America's dictatorships are hopefully never to return. Yet abuses of rights and challenges to the rule of law have not disappeared completely, but rather taken on a different and elusive character. At the same time, the relatively good records of the developed North American countries continue to be undermined by their inconsistent approaches both at home and abroad.Human Rights Regimes in the Americas...