Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights - Rilegato

Mendez, Juan E.; Wentworth, Marjory

 
9780230112339: Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights
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ISBN 10: 0230112331 ISBN 13: 9780230112339
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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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.

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Juan Méndez is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. Previously, he served as the first Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations on the Prevention of Genocide and is the former president of the International Center for Transitional Justice. He spent 15 years at Human Rights Watch, then served as executive director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica and was president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. He is currently a visiting professor of Law at Washington College of Law. He lives in New York City.

Marjory Wentworth is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet whose has worked extensively in human rights for organizations such as the UN High Commission for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland; The Whole World Institute of Boston; and Church World Service in New York. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Editore
Palgrave Macmillan
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0230112331
ISBN 13 
9780230112339
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
256
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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