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For decades, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars,
dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism, racism, and
inequality. The region has also experienced dramatic-if
uneven-human rights improvements, shedding light on the politics of
transformation. The accounts of how Latin America's people have
dealt with the persistent threats to their fundamental rights offer
lessons for people around the world. Human Rights in Latin America
provides a comprehensive introduction to the human rights issues
facing an area that constitutes more than half of the Western
Hemisphere. This second edition brings together regional case
studies and thematic chapters to explore cutting-edge issues and
developments in the field. From historical accounts of abuse to
successful transnational campaigns and legal battles, Human Rights
in Latin America explores the dynamics underlying a vast range of
human rights initiatives. In addition to surveying the roles of the
United States, relatives of the disappeared, and truth commissions,
Sonia Cardenas and Rebecca Root cover newer ground in addressing
the colonial and ideological underpinnings of human rights abuses,
emerging campaigns for gender and sexuality rights, and regional
dynamics relating to the International Criminal Court. Engagingly
written and fully illustrated, Human Rights in Latin America fills
an important niche among human rights and Latin American textbooks.
Ample supplementary resources-including discussion questions,
interdisciplinary reading lists, filmographies, online resources,
internship opportunities, and instructor assignments-make this an
especially valuable text for use in human rights courses.
For decades, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars,
dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism, racism, and
inequality. The region has also experienced dramatic-if
uneven-human rights improvements, shedding light on the politics of
transformation. The accounts of how Latin America's people have
dealt with the persistent threats to their fundamental rights offer
lessons for people around the world. Human Rights in Latin America
provides a comprehensive introduction to the human rights issues
facing an area that constitutes more than half of the Western
Hemisphere. This second edition brings together regional case
studies and thematic chapters to explore cutting-edge issues and
developments in the field. From historical accounts of abuse to
successful transnational campaigns and legal battles, Human Rights
in Latin America explores the dynamics underlying a vast range of
human rights initiatives. In addition to surveying the roles of the
United States, relatives of the disappeared, and truth commissions,
Sonia Cardenas and Rebecca Root cover newer ground in addressing
the colonial and ideological underpinnings of human rights abuses,
emerging campaigns for gender and sexuality rights, and regional
dynamics relating to the International Criminal Court. Engagingly
written and fully illustrated, Human Rights in Latin America fills
an important niche among human rights and Latin American textbooks.
Ample supplementary resources-including discussion questions,
interdisciplinary reading lists, filmographies, online resources,
internship opportunities, and instructor assignments-make this an
especially valuable text for use in human rights courses.
Conflict and Compliance State Responses to International Human
Rights Pressure Sonia Cardenas "Finally, a book showing that
compliance is not an all-or-nothing affair. Cardenas unpacks
compliance and makes a compelling case that domestic politics are a
big part of the story, two invaluable contributions to the field of
human rights. Read the book "--Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, University
of California, San Diego "This is an excellent look at why states
comply--or not--with international human rights norms, and will be
a valuable reference on the bookshelf of students of human rights
as well as, hopefully, policymakers responsible for crafting and
implementing pressure for human rights compliance."--"Human Rights
and Human Welfare" International human rights pressure has been
applied to numerous states with varying results. In "Conflict and
Compliance," Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and
challenges conventional views of the reasons states do--or do
not--comply with international law. Data from disparate bodies of
research suggest that more pressure to comply with human rights
standards is not necessarily more effective, and that international
policies are more efficient when they target the root causes of
state oppression. Cardenas surveys a broad array of evidence to
support these conclusions, including Latin American cases that
incorporate recent important declassified materials, a statistical
analysis of all the countries in the world, and a set of secondary
cases from Eastern Europe, South Africa, China, and Cuba. The views
of human rights skeptics and optimists are surveyed to illustrate
how state rhetoric and behavior can be interpreted differently
depending on one's perspective. Theoretically and methodologically
sophisticated, "Conflict and Compliance" paints a new picture of
the complex dynamics at work when states face competing pressures
to comply with and violate international human rights norms. Sonia
Cardenas is Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity
College in Hartford, Connecticut. Pennsylvania Studies in Human
Rights 2007 200 pages 6 x 9 3 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3999-7 Cloth
$65.00s 42.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-2130-5 Paper $22.50s 15.00 World
Rights Political Science Short copy: Theoretically and
methodologically sophisticated, "Conflict and Compliance" paints a
new picture of the complex dynamics at work when states face
competing pressures to comply with and violate international human
rights norms.
National human rights institutions--state agencies charged with
protecting and promoting human rights domestically--have
proliferated dramatically since the 1990s; today more than a
hundred countries have NHRIs, with dozens more seeking to join the
global trend. These institutions are found in states of all
sizes--from the Maldives and Barbados to South Africa, Mexico, and
India; they exist in conflict zones and comparatively stable
democracies alike. In "Chains of Justice," Sonia Cardenas offers a
sweeping historical and global account of the emergence of NHRIs,
linking their growing prominence to the contradictions and
possibilities of the modern state.As human rights norms gained
visibility at the end of the twentieth century, states began
creating NHRIs based on the idea that if international human rights
standards were ever to take root, they had to be firmly implanted
within countries--impacting domestic laws and administrative
practices and even systems of education. However, this very
position within a complex state makes it particularly challenging
to assess the design and influence of NHRIs: some observers are
inclined to associate NHRIs with ideals of restraint and
accountability, whereas others are suspicious of these institutions
as "pretenders" in democratic disguise. In her theoretically and
politically grounded examination, Cardenas tackles the role of
NHRIs, asking how we can understand the global diffusion of these
institutions, including why individual states decide to create an
NHRI at a particular time while others resist the trend. She
explores the influence of these institutions in states seeking
mostly to appease international audiences as well as their value in
places where respect for human rights is already strong.The most
comprehensive account of the NHRI phenomenon to date, "Chains of
Justice" analyzes many institutions never studied before and draws
from new data released from the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism
of the United Nations Human Rights Council. With its global scope
and fresh insights into the origins and influence of NHRIs, "Chains
of Justice" promises to become a standard reference that will
appeal to scholars immersed in the workings of these understudied
institutions as well as nonspecialists curious about the role of
the state in human rights.
For the last half century, Latin America has been plagued by
civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism and
racism, and other evils. The region has also experienced
dramatic--if uneven--human rights improvements. The accounts of how
Latin America's people have dealt with the persistent threats to
their fundamental rights offer lessons for people around the
world."Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and
Hope" is the first textbook to provide a comprehensive introduction
to the human rights issues facing an area that constitutes more
than half of the Western Hemisphere. Leading human rights
researcher and educator Sonia Cardenas brings together regional
examples of both terror and hope, emphasizing the dualities
inherent in human rights struggles. Organized by three pivotal
topics--human rights violations, reform, and accountability--this
book offers an authoritative synthesis of research on human rights
on the continent. From historical accounts of abuse to successful
transnational campaigns and legal battles, "Human Rights in Latin
America" explores the tensions underlying a vast range of human
rights initiatives. In addition to surveying the roles of the
United States, relatives of the disappeared, and truth commissions,
Cardenas covers newer ground in addressing the colonial and
ideological underpinnings of human rights abuses, emerging
campaigns for disability and sexuality rights, and regional
dynamics relating to the International Criminal Court.Engagingly
written and fully illustrated, "Human Rights in Latin America"
creates an important niche among human rights and Latin American
textbooks. Ample supplementary resources--including discussion
questions, interdisciplinary reading lists, filmographies, online
resources, internship opportunities, and instructor
assignments--make this an especially valuable text for use in human
rights courses.
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