Counting the dead

Description:

Explores how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. From publisher description.

subjects: Politics and government,  Human rights advocacy,  Political persecution,  Social conditions,  Colombia, politics and government,  Colombia, social conditions,  Human rights advocacy--colombia,  Political persecution--colombia,  Jc599.c7 t38 2007,  323.09861