Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America, Hardback - ***

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes and protecting targeted victims-including the dead-d...

In some Latin American countries, private prosecution improves access to justice for victims of crime as well as human rights violations. By examin...

DescriptionHow and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have different strategies, tactics, and strands of international solidarity emerged or...

Reducere. Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the United St...

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This study examines the establishment and evolution of China's strategic partnerships with Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. It analyzes th...

Using ethnographic data gathered in violent locations across Latin America, Eduardo Moncada shares new insights into the widespread problem of crim...

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This book shows how and why politicians and police actors confront, negotiate with, or protect drug dealers to contain criminal violence in urban a...

Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus B...

An exploration of the cultural legacy left by African slaves in the Caribbean and Latin AmericaPublisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Henry...

This book assesses financing strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in pursuance of the United Nations' millennium development goals (MDGs)...

The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBTQ rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for th...

Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America proposes, tests and analyses the liberal captured model. It explores to what extent to wh...

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the compl...

This book considers the appropriate response of the criminal law with regard to women whose acts or omissions in pregnancy cause the death or injur...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Prof. Dr. Ken MacLeanIllustration(s): 6 b-w illustrations; 2 maps; 2 tablesNumber of pages: 300...

This book resolves one of Latin America's must difficult public opinion puzzles: the discrepancy between policy performance and regime support in C...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Amanda (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) SpaldingNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022D...

Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus B...

By highlighting the institutional and socio-cultural context of human rights, this timely collection provides illuminating insights into the emerge...

It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western ...

The first monograph to examine Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries, this book explains the significance of Salles' film with respect to the speci...

Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America's struggles for human rights.Publisher: Yale Universit...

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. This volume excavates his ...

In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This bo...

This book traces the development of the discourse used by the pro-life movement since the 1970s, and its relationship to public policy efforts at t...

Publisher: Chelsea House PublishersIllustration(s): Illustrations (some col.)Number of pages: 127Collection: Milestones in Modern World HistoryPubl...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryGay/Lesbian NonfictionSynopsis: Over 13, 000 Americans have been murdered in the late twen...

Nigeria is known as the "giant of Africa" because of its natural and human resources, but it remains unstable because of human rights violations. T...

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism

Lea David goes against the well-embedded belief that 'proper' remembrance leads to a better appreciation of human rights values, helping us to unde...

Lyndsey Stonebridge presents a new way to think about the relationship between literature and human rights that challenges the idea that empathy in...

Reducere. Hate crimes against Native Americans are a common occurrence, Barbara Perry reveals, although most go unreported. In this eye-opening book, Perry s...

Examines human rights disasters during Myanmar's democratisation.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Anchalee RulandIllustration(...

Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about ...

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Torture doctors administer and invent techniques to inflict pain and suffering without leaving scars.Their knowledge of the body and its breaking p...

Philosopher, psychologist and linguist are all concerned with natural language. Accordingly, in seeking a unified view, David Braine draws on insig...

This systematic overview of the main arguments made against human rights is the first of its kind. It proposes a strong democratic defence of human...

A thousand years of Latin American history, told through the three obsessions that have held the region tightly in its grip.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Adolfo Perez EsquivelNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 21Cover type:...

This book will help students and academics to learn more about how the European Court of Human Rights operates in practice. It explains the functio...

A deep dive into the history and philosophy of isonomy, a system of equal rights for all, as an alternative to the concept of democracy.Publisher: ...

Publisher: Image PublishersAuthor(s): Julius Bikoloni SakalaNumber of pages: 202Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 267 x 171 x 2Cover type: Paperbac...

This biography of Beatriz Allende - revolutionary doctor and daughter of Salvador Allende - portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for cha...

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