Breaking silence : the case that changed the face of human rights / / Richard Alan White
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| Autore: |
White Richard Alan <1944->
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| Titolo: |
Breaking silence : the case that changed the face of human rights / / Richard Alan White
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323/.044/09892 |
| 323.04409892 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Human rights - Paraguay |
| Political persecution - Paraguay | |
| Torture - Paraguay | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Paraguay Politics and government 1954-1989 |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; Epilogue; Glossary and Abbreviations; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Fil?rtiga was taken from his family home in Asunci?n, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police. Breaking Silence is the inside story of the quest for justice by his fatherùthe true target of the policeùParaguayan artist and philanthropist Dr. Joel Fil?rtiga. That cruel death, and the subsequent uncompromising struggle by Joelito's father and family, led to an unprecedented sea change in international law and human rights. The author, Richard Alan White, first became acquainted with the Fil?rtiga family in the mid-1970s while doing rese |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Breaking silence |
| ISBN: | 1-58901-281-X |
| 1-4356-3897-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827148503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Advancing human rights series.