Protecting Human Rights Defenders in Latin America A Legal and Socio-Political Analysis of Brazil /

• Main Author: Terto Neto, Ulisses (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Human rights.; Social justice.; Latin America-History.; Democracy.; World politics.; Latin American Politics.; Human Rights.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Latin American History.; Political History.

This book offers a legal and socio-political analysis of the Brazilian Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Discussing Colombian, Guatemalan and Mexican experiences, it fills a gap in the literature regarding Latin American public policy by investigating the creation, work, benefici...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Protection of Human Rights Defenders
• Chapter 3: Brazil's Path Towards Human Rights
• Chapter 4: State and Civil Society's Responses to State and Non-State Actors' Violence Towards Human Rights Defenders
• Chapter 5: The Path to the Creation of the Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
• Chapter 6: The Legal Framework and Legal Functioning of the Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
• Chapter 7: The Effects in Practice of the Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
• Chapter 8: The Broader Effects of the Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
• Chapter 9: What is Preventing the Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders from Fulfilling its Potential, and What Can Be Done?
• Chapter 10: Conclusion.