TY  - BOOK
AU  - Méndez,Juan E.
AU  - Wentworth,Marjory
TI  - Taking a stand: the evolution of human rights 
SN  - 9780230112339
AV  - JC 571 .M3995 2011
U1  - 323.092B 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Méndez, Juan E.
KW  - Human rights workers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Political prisoners
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -