Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Latin America

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Course offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the key advances in and challenges for the protection of human rights in contemporary Latin America.In contesting autocratic governments in the 1970's and 1980's, Latin America social movements and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) played a central role in the creation of the institutions and norms that constitute the international human rights system today. Enrollment limited to 20.