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Mexico’s Mass Disappearances and the Drug War (Ayotzinapa: The Missing 43 Students) : What Is the Declaration of Human Rights?
This research guide was created after the exhibition Ayotzinapa: We Will Not Wither, held at Memorial Library from September 16 to October 30, 2015.
What is de Declaration of Human Rights?
Human rights were established after World War II (in 1948) in order to protect humans in their basic freedoms: probably to avoid slavery, genocide, torture, and war crimes. After the establishment of the rights it was no longer deemed correct or practical to deprive a human of her or his rights.
Every human being, according to the Rights, was entitled to be “born free and equal in dignity and rights. […] endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” This means there is a recognition of all members of the human family to have freedom of speech, justice and peace in the world.
Freedom from fear.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 General Assembly resolution 217(III) A as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.
Human Rights Watch
- Human Right's Watch Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities. Established in 1978, Human Rights Watch is known for its accurate fact-finding, impartial reporting, effective use of media, and targeted advocacy, often in partnership with local human rights groups. Each year, Human Rights Watch publishes more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries, generating extensive coverage in local and international media. With the leverage this brings, Human Rights Watch meets with governments, the United Nations, regional groups like the African Union and the European Union, financial institutions, and corporations to press for changes in policy and practice that promote human rights and justice around the world.
Inter-American Comission on Human Rights
- Inter-American Comission on Human Rights The IACHR is a principal and autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (“OAS”) whose mission is to promote and protect human rights in the American hemisphere. It is composed of seven independent members who serve in a personal capacity. Created by the OAS in 1959, the Commission has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Together with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (“the Court” or “the I/A Court H.R.), installed in 1979, the Commission is one of the institutions within the inter-American system for the protection of human rights (“IAHRS”).
Recommended Readings
Los ojos de Lía by
The main topic of this children’s book is how to deal with the violence that children deal with every day. In Spanish.
Call Number: PQ7298.418 E7986 O36 2012.ISBN: 6077781290Publication Date: 2012
Accounting for Violence by
Accounting for Violence offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences provide in-depth analyses of the political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors take up issues of authenticity and commodification, as well as the "never again" imperative implicit in memory goods and memorial sites. They describe how bookstores, cinemas, theaters, the music industry, and television shows (and their commercial sponsors) trade in testimonial and fictional accounts of the authoritarian past; how tourist itineraries have come to include trauma sites and memorial museums; and how memory studies has emerged as a distinct academic field profiting from its own journals, conferences, book series, and courses. The memory market, described in terms of goods, sites, producers, marketers, consumers, and patrons, presents a paradoxical situation. On the one hand, commodifying memory potentially cheapens it. On the other hand, too little public exposure may limit awareness of past human-rights atrocities; such awareness may help to prevent their recurring. Contributors. Rebecca J. Atencio, Ksenija Bilbija, Jo-Marie Burt, Laurie Beth Clark, Cath Collins, Susana Draper, Nancy Gates-Madsen, Susana Kaiser, Cynthia E. Milton, Alice A. Nelson, Carmen Oquendo Villar, Leigh A. Payne, José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, Maria Eugenia Ulfe
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Further Readings about the Human Rights Violations Related to the Drug War [PDF]
- Further Readings about the Human Rights Violations Related to the Drug War [PDF] Further Readings about the Human Rights Violations Related to the Drug War [PDF]. With Call Numbers. Updated September 2015.