Rethinking human rights.
A special section on human rights in Latin America. Topics discussed include the new challenges for human rights advocacy; the efforts of Argentina's Center for Legal and Social Studies to combat impunity; the outing of torturers and assassins in postdictatorship Argentina; steps being taken to add...
| Publicado en: | NACLA Report on the Americas Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 6 - 54 |
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| Formato: | Symposium |
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North American Congress on Latin America
July/August 2000
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| Sumario: | A special section on human rights in Latin America. Topics discussed include the new challenges for human rights advocacy; the efforts of Argentina's Center for Legal and Social Studies to combat impunity; the outing of torturers and assassins in postdictatorship Argentina; steps being taken to address the legacy of military human rights abuses in the country; building a “culture of rights” to link traditional ideas of civil and political rights with social, economic, and cultural rights; the dire situation of indigenous people in Peru's Madre di Dios; the need to apply human rights to the workplace; women's rights; how globalization both threatens and develops human rights in the region; the proposed International Criminal Court; the trial of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; the revival of the Uruguayan human rights movement; a Uruguayan mother's search for her abducted son; the NUNCA MAS project in Colombia; the threat of violence against Colombia's journalists; innovative campaigns in Peru to put human rights concerns on the political agenda; and human rights advocacy in Brazil. |
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