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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...

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Published in:NACLA Report on the Americas Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 6 - 54
Format: Symposium
Published: North American Congress on Latin America July/August 2000
Subjects:
Human rights movements
Latin America
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