SIS-669 Human Rights in Latin America (3)

This course examines some of the issues confronting human rights in Latin America today: how to remember, redress and repair human rights abuses under past authoritarian regimes; how to document and address rights abuses linked to the globalized movements of labor and people, as well as of indigenous peoples; what the role of the United States has been and should be; what the role of international and national non-governmental organizations is and ought to be; how to address non-political violence through human rights frameworks; and how to secure human rights in the region’s armed conflicts. Although numerous cases are included, the course draws heavily on Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador, and Haiti. Usually Offered: fall.