Sustaining human rights in the twenty-first century : strategies from Latin America
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Sustaining human rights in the twenty-first century : strategies from Latin America
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, c2013
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Part I: The Human Rights Idea
Chapter 1. The Arc of Human Rights
Chapter 2. Human Rights in Two Latin American Democracies
Chapter 3. Participation, Democracy, and Human Rights: An Approach Based on the Dilemmas Facing Latin America
Part II: Institutional and Legal Frameworks and the Question of Accountability
Chapter 4. The New Accountability Agenda in Latin America: The Promise and Perils of Human Rights Prosecutions
Chapter 5. Reconsidering the Peace-and-Justice Debate: International Justice in Africa and Latin America
Chapter 6. The United Nations and Human Rights: What Is Wrong and How to Fix It
Chapter 7. Crime, Society, and the Challenge to Human Rights Protection
Chapter 8. Chile: Coming to Terms with a Traumatic Past
Part III: Citizens' Movements and Conceptions of Citizenship
Chapter 9. International Migration and Human Rights
Chapter 10. The Longue Duree of NGOs Promoting and Monitoring Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in a Divided Global Civil Society
Chapter 11. Challenging Neoliberalism and Development: Human Rights and the Environment in Latin America
Chapter 12. Voice and Visibility in Latin American Memory Politics
Epilogue: A Task for All
Contributors
Index
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