Rainforest Warriors - Human Rights on Trial

Informationen zum Autor By Richard Price Klappentext Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. Zusammenfassung Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Africans Discover America Land, Spirits, Power Earth, Water, Sky The Dam at Afobaka Rockets at Kourou Sovereignty and Territory The Aloeboetoe Incursion The Moiwana Massacre Trees Resistance Redux Initial Protests The Depredations Continue Judgment Day Pre-Hearing Pleadings The Hearing The Judgment American Dreams Developments on the Ground Broader Implications Postface Notes References Cited Illustration Credits Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Richard Price
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.01.2012
• EAN: 9780812221374
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2137-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories