Format:
1 online resource (321 pages)
ISBN:
9781589012813
Series Statement:
Advancing Human Rights series
Content:
Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Fil?rtiga was taken from his family home in Asunci?n, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police. Breaking Silence is the inside story of the quest for justice by his fatherùthe true target of the policeùParaguayan artist and philanthropist Dr. Joel Fil?rtiga. That cruel death, and the subsequent uncompromising struggle by Joelito's father and family, led to an unprecedented sea change in international law and human rights. The author, Richard Alan White, first became acquainted with the Fil?rtiga family in the mid-1970s while doing research for his dissertation on Paraguayan independence. Answering a distressed letter from Joelito's father, he returned to Paraguay and journeyed with the Fil?rtiga family on their long and difficult road to redress. White gives the reader a compelling first-hand, participant-observer perspective, taking us into the family with him, to give witness to not only their agony and sorrow, but their resolute strength as wellùstrength that led to a groundbreaking 10 million legal decision in Fil?rtiga v. Pe?a. (Americo Norberto Pe?a-Irala was the Paraguayan police officer responsible for Joelito's abduction and murder, whom the Fil?rtigas had arrested after finding him hiding in Brooklyn.) That landmark decision, based on the almost obscure Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789, ruled that U.S. courts could accept jurisdiction in international casesùrecognizing the right of foreign human rights victims to sueùeven though the alleged violation occurred in another country by a non-American and against a non-American. So fundamentally has the Fil?rtiga precedent changed the landscape of international human rights law, that it has served as the basis for nearly 100 progeny suits, and grown to encompass not only human rights abuses, but also violations of international
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- CHAPTER TWELVE -- Epilogue -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- A -- B -- C -- F -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781589010321
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781589010321
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=547831
