Breaking silence : the case that changed the face of human rights / Richard Alan White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Richard Alan, 1944-

Series:

Advancing human rights series.

Advancing human rights series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Paraguay.

Human rights.

Political persecution--Paraguay.

Political persecution.

Torture--Paraguay.

Torture.

Paraguay--Politics and government--1954-1989.

Paraguay.

Filártiga, Joelito, 1959-1976.

Filártiga, Joelito.

Filártiga, Joel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Fil?rtiga was taken from his family home in Asunci?n, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police. Breaking Silence is the inside story of the quest for justice by his fatherùthe true target of the policeùParaguayan artist and philanthropist Dr. Joel Fil?rtiga. That cruel death, and the subsequent uncompromising struggle by Joelito's father and family, led to an unprecedented sea change in international law and human rights. The author, Richard Alan White, first became acquainted with the Fil?rtiga family in the mid-1970s while doing rese

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; Epilogue; Glossary and Abbreviations; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781589012813

158901281X

9781435638976

1435638972

OCLC:

646755591