Human rights regimes in the Americas /
The Americas have witnessed considerable progress in the field of human rights. Although painful legacies persist, large-scale, systematic human rights violations of the kind common during Latin America's dictatorships are hopefully never to return. Yet abuses of rights and challenges to the ru...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Shibuya-ku, Tokyo ; New York :
United Nations University Press,
©2010.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | The Americas have witnessed considerable progress in the field of human rights. Although painful legacies persist, large-scale, systematic human rights violations of the kind common during Latin America's dictatorships are hopefully never to return. Yet abuses of rights and challenges to the rule of law have not disappeared completely, but rather taken on a different and elusive character. At the same time, the relatively good records of the developed North American countries continue to be undermined by their inconsistent approaches both at home and abroad. Human Rights Regimes in the Americas. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789280871456 9280871455 |
