Impunity and the Right to Truth in the Inter-American System of Human Rights
During the 1970s and the 1980s, Latin America witnessed widespread violations of human rights. However, from the early 1980s, the beginning of democratic transition in the region led to an intense debate on impunity and the controversial “right to truth”: the right to learn about what had occurred u...
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Language: | English |
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Iberoamericana / Vervuert
2014-06-01
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Series: | Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal |
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Online Access: | http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/873 |