Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights

by Diana Tietjens Meyers

Victim's Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights takes on a set of questions suggested by the worldwide persistence of human rights abuse and the prevalence of victims' stories in human rights campaigns, truth commissions, and international criminal tribunals: What conceptions of victims are presumed in contemporary human rights discourse? How do conventional narrative templates fail victims of human rights abuse and resist raising novel human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199930406
• ISBN13: 9780199930401
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"