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Item Details
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TAKING A STAND
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS |
| By: |
Juan E. Mendez, Marjory Wentworth |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230112331 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230112339 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
27 September, 2011 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Prominent human rights activist Juan Mendez draws upon decades of experience in the field to illustrate the evolution of human rights and offer a new way forward for governments and watch dog groups in the fight to preserve human rights. |
| Synopsis: |
Juan Mendez has experienced human rights abuse first hand. As a result of his work with political prisoners in the late 1970s, the Argentinean military dictatorship arrested, tortured, and held him for more than a year. During that time, Amnesty International adopted him as a "Prisoner of Conscience." After his release, he moved to the United States and continued his lifelong fight for the rights of others, and the lessons he has gleaned over the decades can help us with our current struggles. Here, he sets forth an authoritative and incisive examination of torture, detention, exile, armed conflict, and genocide, whose urgency is even greater in the wake of America's recent disastrous policies. Mendez offers a new strategy for holding governments accountable for their actions, providing an essential blueprint for different human rights groups to be able to work together to effect change. |
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0 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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