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Cleary examines the origins, spread, and results of human rights movements in Latin America, and he analyzes the mark such movements have made in world politics.

Cleary examines the origins, spread, and results of human rights movements in Latin America, and he analyzes the mark such movements have made in world politics. He shows the enormous difficulties encountered by fledgling grassroots groups which first challenged military dictatorships over the disappeared.

Cleary examines the origins, spread, and results of human rights movements in Latin America, and he analyzes the . He shows the enormous difficulties encountered by fledgling grassroots groups which first challenged military dictatorships over the disappeared, detention, torture, and pervasive repression. This book is particularly important because it establishes, for the first time, a record of why, how, where, and when the concept of human rights-not long ago absent as a practical concept-generates so powerful a Latin American response.

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Cleary, Edward L. The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. Heavily focused on Chile, but does include references to other Latin American countries. Cleary, Edward L. Mobilizing for Human Rights in Latin America. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian, 2007. E-mail Citation . A brief introductory text about the human rights movement in Latin America. He shows the enormous difficulties encountered by fledgling grassroots groups which first challenged military dictatorships over "the disappeared," detention, torture, and pervasive repression. He chronicles the amazingly dynamic growth of human rights organizations, affecting democratic processes in Latin America and foreign policy in the United States.

Cleary shows that human rights has a long history in Latin America .

Cleary shows that human rights has a long history in Latin America distinctive from other traditions and that this tradition has expressed itself profoundly after the military period. He argues that the region's unique history is not only creating solutions to issues like corruption and minority rights, but can also offer a valuable balance to the larger international discourse on human rights. He is author of The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America, Crisis and Change, and other works.

An analysis of these struggles, developed from inside and outside the state and from diverse points of the political spectrum, makes it possible to identify the meaning frames in which the people taking part in these struggles construct narratives of the massacre, such as the Jewish-Christian tradition, discourses on human rights and the memory of the Shoah, national security doctrines, and Nazi.

This book studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates .

This book studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice. Their struggles show that legal justice is a multifaceted process, the overarching purpose of which is to restore human dignity and prevent further violence. Uncovering, revealing, and proving the truth are essential elements of legal justice, and are also powerful tools to activate the process

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