Behind the Disappearances - Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights and the United Nations

Informationen zum Autor Iain Guest served as a UN spokesperson in Cambodia and Haiti and was a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where he specialized in Rwanda and Bosnia. Guest is a founding member of the Advocacy Project, which advises advocacy groups on using the new information technology in their campaigning and produces the electronic newsletter On the Record. He is currently visiting fellow at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, D.C. Klappentext ""One of the best and most interesting treatments of the human rights movement, and of the dynamics of the United Nations human rights system, written to date.""--Human Rights Quarterly Drawing on confidential Argentinian documents and memoranda, Zusammenfassung Documents a seven-year diplomatic war by Argentina's brutal regime. This book relates how! starting in 1976! Argentina's military government tried to cripple the UN's human rights machinery in an effort to prevent international condemnation of its policy of disappearances.

Product details

• Authors: Iain Guest
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1990
• EAN: 9780812213133
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1313-3
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education