Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights

by Juan E. Méndez and Marjory Wentworth

Juan Mendez 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230112331
• ISBN13: 9780230112339
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"