Review Digest

Revisiting Human Rights in Latin America

Located here you will find the archives for the Revisiting Latin America digest. It is provided in PDF format, and you can either download the entire digest or download each individual section. Depending on your connection speed you may want to opt for the smaller file size to decrease download time.

If you have any questions feel free to email Arianna Nowakowski, Digest Editor and Instructor.

Revisiting Human Rights in Latin America (Full File: 2592kb)

• Introduction by Christina Cerna (136kb)
  The Continuing Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil (213kb)
  The Brazilian Paradox: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Battle for Human Rights (281kb)
  Child Labor in Latin America: Poverty as Cause and Effect (238kb)
  Confronting the Past: Democratic Rhetoric or Socially Necessary? (238kb)
  Human Rights Abuses along the Dominican-Haitian Border (253kb)
  Indigenous Rights in Latin America: The Gap between Doctrine and Reality (243kb)
  Moving Beyond Divisive Discourse: Latin American Women in Politics (235kb)
  The Colonial Legacy and Human Rights in Mexico: Indigenous Rights and the Zapatista Movement (210kb)
  Police Violence in Brazil (277kb)
  Violence against Sex Workers in Latin America: Pervasiveness, Impunity, and Implications (297kb)

The Topical Research Digests provide annotated bibliographies of recent literature covering a geographic region or topical area of interest to the study and practice of human rights. It is our intention that the Topical Research Digests provide researchers and scholars with a distillation of topics in an easily accessible format.