Breaking silence : the case that changed the face of human rights

Author(s)

• White, Richard Alan

Bibliographic Information

Breaking silence : the case that changed the face of human rights

Richard Alan White

（Advancing human rights series / Sumner B. Twiss, John Kelsay, and Terry Coonan, editors）

Georgetown University Press, 2004

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Describes how, after young Joelito Fil rtiga was taken from his home and murdered by the Paraguayan police, his family began a crusade that would bring unprecedented changes to human rights laws, a journey chronicled by a firsthand observer of the struggle.

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Details

• NCID: BA72344450
• ISBN:
  • 1589010329
• LCCN: 2004004292
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 300 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JC599.P3
  • DC22 : 323/.044/09892
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Human rights -- Paraguay
  • LCSH : Political persecution -- Paraguay
  • LCSH : Filártiga, Joelito, 1959-1976
  • LCSH : Torture -- Paraguay
  • LCSH : Paraguay -- Politics and government -- 1954-1989
  • LCSH : Filártiga, Joel
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA72344086