Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 276 p)
,
ill., maps
ISBN:
1283890275
,
9781283890274
,
9780812203721
Series Statement:
Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Content:
Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life--part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Africans Discover America -- Land, Spirits, Power -- Earth, Water, Sky -- The Dam at Afobaka -- Rockets at Kourou -- Sovereignty and Territory -- The Aloeboetoe Incursion -- The Moiwana Massacre -- Trees -- Resistance Redux -- Initial Protests -- The Depredations Continue -- Judgment Day -- Pre-Hearing Pleadings -- The Hearing -- The Judgment -- American Dreams -- Developments on the Ground -- Broader Implications -- Postface -- Notes -- References Cited -- Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgments.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0812219201
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812221374
Additional Edition:
Print version Rainforest Warriors : Human Rights on Trial
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
