Mexico's Human Rights Crisis / Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz, Barbara Frey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anaya, Alejandro, editor.

Frey, Barbara, editor.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Mexico.

Human rights.

Mexico.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Mexico's Human Rights Crisis offers a broad survey of the human rights issues that plague Mexico. Impunity, contributors argue, is the root cause of a climate of generalized violence that is carried out, condoned, or ignored by the state and precludes any hope for justice.

Contents:

Deadly forces : use of lethal force by Mexican security forces 2007-2015 / Catalina Perez Correa, Carlos Silva Forne, and Rodrigo Gutierrez Rivas

Violence-induced internal displacement in Mexico, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and official state responses / Laura Rubio Díaz-Leal

Women's human rights in the armed conflict in Mexico : organized crime, collective action, and state responses / Sandra Hincapie

The invisible violence against women in Mexico / Regina Tames

Superfluous lives: undocumented migrants traveling in Mexico / Javier Treviño-Rangel

Emigration, violence, and human rights violations in Central Mexico / Benjamin James Waddell

Bridging legal geographies: contextual adjudication in Mexican asylum claims / Ariadna Estevez

Mexican asylum seekers and the convention against torture / Susan Gzesh

Democracia a la Mexicana : a framework conducive to human rights violations / Daniel Vázquez

Factors blocking the compliance with international human rights norms in Mexico / Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Natalia Saltalamacchia

Human rights and justice in Mexico : an analysis of judicial functions / Karina Ansolabehere

The judicial breakthrough model : transnational advocacy networks and lethal violence / Janice Gallagher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)

ISBN:

9780812295719

0812295714

OCLC:

1078989427