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Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century

Strategies from Latin America

edited by Katherine Hite and Mark Ungar
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A historical look at the fight for human rights in the last century with applications to conditions today.

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.

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A historical look at the fight for human rights in the last century with applications to conditions today.

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.

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This is an excellent book on human rights as it pertains to the situation in Latin America.

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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

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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 Durée 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
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Mark Ungar

Mark Ungar is a professor of political science and criminal justice at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is author of Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America.
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