The Struggle For Human Rights In Latin America

Author : Edward L. Cleary
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Edward L. Cleary
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781565492417

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

In the follow-up to his widely read The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America, author Edward Cleary examines some of the robust human rights movements of the past two decades in Mobilizing for Human Rights in Latin America. Advocates of the rights of women, indigenous groups, the landless, and street children have achieved notable gains, so much so that in 1999 the New York Times claimed that women have achieved more rights in Latin America than in any other region. Cleary establishes a record of why, how, where, and when human rights reached this level. It is often assumed that the concept of human rights is something that must be imported by Western liberal democracies to developing countries. Cleary shows that human rights has a long history in Latin America distinctive from other traditions and that this tradition has expressed itself profoundly since the military period. He argues that the region’s unique history is not only creating solutions to issues such as corruption and minority rights, but also can offer a valuable balance to the larger international discourse on human rights.

Author : Wilhelm Kempf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:953304909

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The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America by Wilhelm Kempf Pdf

Author : Nancy Grey Postero,León Zamosc
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060892265

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The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America by Nancy Grey Postero,León Zamosc Pdf

"This book examines the struggle for indigenous rights in seven Latin American countries. Initial studies of indigenous movements celebrated the return of the Indians as relevant political actors, often approaching their struggles as expressions of a common, generic agenda. This collection moves the debate forward by acknowledging the extraordinary diversity among the movements' composition, goals, and strategies. By focusing on the factors that shape this diversity, the authors offer a basis for understanding the specificities of converging and diverging patterns across different countries. The volume concludes that the Indian struggles are having a direct impact on the character of democracy, and in the process contribute to the redefinition of Latin American societies as multicultural."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael A. Di Giovine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 0692975985

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The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America, 1967-2017 by Michael A. Di Giovine Pdf

Author : Allan R. Brewer-Carías
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521492027

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Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Latin America by Allan R. Brewer-Carías Pdf

This book examines the most recent trends in the constitutional and legal regulations in all Latin American countries regarding the amparo proceeding. It analyzes the regulations of the seventeen amparo statutes in force in Latin America, as well as the regulation on the amparo guarantee established in Article 25 of the American Convention of Human Rights.

Author : Jessica Stites Mor
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299291136

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Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America by Jessica Stites Mor Pdf

With the end of the global Cold War, the struggle for human rights has emerged as one of the most controversial forces of change in Latin America. Many observers seek the foundations of that movement in notions of rights and models of democratic institutions that originated in the global North. Challenging that view, this volume argues that Latin American community organizers, intellectuals, novelists, priests, students, artists, urban pobladores, refugees, migrants, and common people have contributed significantly to new visions of political community and participatory democracy. These local actors built an alternative transnational solidarity from below with significant participation of the socially excluded and activists in the global South. Edited by Jessica Stites Mor, this book offers fine-grained case studies that show how Latin America’s re-emerging Left transformed the struggles against dictatorship and repression of the Cold War into the language of anti-colonialism, socioeconomic rights, and identity.

Author : Penny Lernoux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901241677

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Cry of the people by Penny Lernoux Pdf

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000315646

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The Continuing Struggle For Democracy In Latin America by Howard J. Wiarda Pdf

This integrated collection of original essays evaluates and assesses whether democracy is viable in Latin America and, if so, how and in what form. The authors examine the significance, for both Latin America and the United States, of the dominance of authoritarian political systems in most Latin American countries; explore the implications of asse

Author : Sufyan Droubi,Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781526155061

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Latin America and international investment law by Sufyan Droubi,Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo Pdf

Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law. While some governments and non-state actors have remained true to the Latin American tradition of resistance towards the international investment law regime, other governments and actors have sought to accommodate said regime in the region. Consequently, a profusion of theories and doctrines, too often embedded in clashing narratives, has emerged. In Latin America, the practice of international investment law is the vivid amalgamation of the practice of governments sometimes resisting and sometimes welcoming mainstream approaches; the practice of lawyers assisting foreign investors from outside and within the region; and the practice of civil society, indigenous peoples and other actors in their struggle for human rights and sustainable development. Latin America and international investment law describes the complex roles that governments have played vis-à-vis foreign investors and investments; the refreshing but clashing forces that international organizations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples have brought to the field; and the contribution that Latin America has made to the development of the theory and practice of international investment law, notably in fields in which the Latin American experience has been traumatic: human rights and sustainable development. Latin American scholars have been contributing to the theory of international investment law for over a century; resting on the shoulders of true giants, this volume aims at pushing this contribution a little further.

Author : Luis van Isschot
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299299842

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The Social Origins of Human Rights by Luis van Isschot Pdf

Offering deep insight to the lives of human rights activists in a conflict zone, against the backdrop of major historical changes that shaped Latin America in the twentieth century, this book illuminates the critical role of human rights organizations in bringing violence to public attention and analyzing its causes and consequences.

Author : Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0801474191

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Mixed Signals by Kathryn Sikkink Pdf

"Kathryn Sikkink believes that the adoption of human rights policy represents a positive change in the relationship between the United States and Latin America. In Mixed Signals she traces a gradual but remarkable shift in U.S. foreign policy over the last generation. Sikkink recounts the reemergence of human rights as a substantive concern and warns that the current war against terrorism could repeat the mistakes of the past unless we insist that it be conducted with respect for human rights and the rule of law."--Back cover.

Author : Todd A. Eisenstadt,Michael S. Danielson,Moises Jaime Bailon Corres,Carlos Sorroza Polo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199936274

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Latin America's Multicultural Movements by Todd A. Eisenstadt,Michael S. Danielson,Moises Jaime Bailon Corres,Carlos Sorroza Polo Pdf

Bringing together the expertise of dozens of Latin American scholars, Latin America's Multicultural Movements examines multicultural rights recognition in theory and in practice. The authors move beyond abstract debates common in the literature on multiculturalism to examine indigenous rights recognition in different real-world settings, comparing cases in unitary states (Bolivia, Ecuador) with subnational autonomy regimes in Mexico's federal states (Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Yucatán).

Author : Elizabeth Jelin,Eric Hershberg
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009810140

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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 : Mariana Cunha,Antônio Márcio da Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319962085

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Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Mariana Cunha,Antônio Márcio da Silva Pdf

This edited collection explores how contemporary Latin American cinema has dealt with and represented issues of human rights, moving beyond many of the recurring topics for Latin American films. Through diverse interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, and analyses of different audiovisual media from fictional and documentary films to digitally-distributed activist films, the contributions discuss the theme of human rights in cinema in connection to various topics and concepts. Chapters in the volume explore the prison system, state violence, the Mexican dirty war, the Chilean dictatorship, debt, transnational finance, indigenous rights, social movement, urban occupation, the right to housing, intersectionality, LGBTT and women’s rights in the context of a number of Latin American countries. By so doing, it assesses the long overdue relation between cinema and human rights in the region, thus opening new avenues to aid the understanding of cinema’s role in social transformation.