01829cam a2200277 a 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200018000840400018001020420008001200500024001280820015001520840023001671000022001902450096002122600047003083000025003555040051003805200913004316000022013446500037013666500039014036500078014427000031015201670029920140903163902.0110321s2011    nyu      b    001 0aeng    a  2011012449  a9780230112339  aDLCcDLCdDLC  apcc00aJC 571b.M3995 201100a323.092aB  aPOL0350102bisacsh1 aMéndez, Juan E.10aTaking a stand :bthe evolution of human rights /cJuan E. Méndez with Marjory Wentworth.  aNew York, NY :bPalgrave Macmillan,c2011.  aix, 246 p. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"Juan Méndez 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 decades can help us with our current struggles.  Here, he sets forth an authoritative and incisive examination of torture, detention, exile, armed conflict, and genocide, whose urgency is even greater in the wake of America's recent disastrous policies. Méndez offers a new strategy for holding governments accountable for their actions, providing an essential blueprint for different human rights groups to be able to work together to effect change"--10aMéndez, Juan E. 0aHuman rights workersvBiography. 0aPolitical prisonersxCivil rights. 7aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights2bisacsh.1 aWentworth, Marjory,d1958-