Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights

by Juan E. Méndez and Marjory Wentworth

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Juan Mendez has experienced human rights abuse first hand. As a result of his work with political prisoners in the late 1970s, the Argentinean military dictatorship arrested, tortured, and held him for more than a year. During that time, Amnesty International adopted him as a "Prisoner of Conscience." After his release, he moved to the United States and continued his lifelong fight for the rights of others, and the lessons he has gleaned over the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0230112331

ISBN13:9780230112339

Release Date:September 2011

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:246 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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