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1. International Human Rights Law and Abortion in Latin America - http://hrw.org/backgrounder/wrd/wrd0106/

Publications dealing with the Americas: http://hrw.org/doc/?t=americas_pub
Subjects Include (Among Others):
Mexico: Lost in Transition - Bold Ambitions, Limited Results for Human Rights Under Fox
Mexico: The Second Assault – Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico
Colombia: Displaced and Discarded – The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Bogota and Cartagena
Decisions Denied: Women’s Access to Contraceptives and Abortion in Argentina
Real Dungeons: Juvenile Detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro
Undue Process: Terrorism Trials, Military Courts and the Mapuche in Southern Chile
A Test of Inequality: Discrimination against Women Living with HIV in the Dominican Republic

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2. Essays concerning Latin America (Hoover Institution) – available for 5.00

About the Hoover Institution: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, is a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy—both domestic and foreign—as well as international affairs. With its world-renowned group of scholars and ongoing programs of policy-oriented research, the Hoover Institution puts its accumulated knowledge to work as a prominent contributor to the world marketplace of ideas defining a free society.  [Taken from their Web Page]

Topics Include:

  • Causes Continuing Conflict in Nicaragua: A View from the Radical Middle
  • Doing it Wrong and Doing it Right: Education in Latin America and Asia
  • Judicial Reform in Latin America: A Framework for National Development
  • War and Lack of Government in Colombia: Narcos, Guerillas, and U.S. Policy
  • Argentina’s Capitalist Revolution Revisited: Confronting the Social Costs of Statist Mistakes

    [http://www.hooverpress.org/showproducts.cfm?FullCat=77]
     

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/publications.html
(publications related to Latin America – literature, articles)
 

Spanish Publications: 

 

  1. Title: America Latina en el Mundo: El pensamiento Latinoamericano y la Teoria de Relaciones Internacionales (Author: Raul Bernal Meza) (Published by Nuevohacer Grupo Editor Latinoamericano)
     
  2. Title: Informe sobre Democracia en America Latina (Released by the United Nations Development Programmer)

English Publications:

  1. Title: Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives – Latin America and the Caribbean (Released by the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy)
     
  2. Title: Mujers en America Latina y el Caribe/ Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Author: Marysa Navarro)
     
  3. Title: Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Breaking with History? (Authors: David de Ferranti, Guillermo Perry, Michael Walton, Fransisco H.G. Ferreira)
     
  4. Title: Citizens, Politicians and Providers: The Latin American Experience with Service Delivery Reform (Author: Ariel Fiszbein)
     
  5. Title: AIDS in Latin America (Author: Tim Frasca)
     
  6. Title: Exclusion and Engagement: Social Policy in Latin America (Editors: Colin M. Lewis, Christopher Abel. Released by University of London Institute of Latin American Studies)
     
  7. Title: Broken Bodies, Broken Dreams: Violence Against Women Exposed
    Released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
     
  8. Title: Costa Rica: Social spending and the poor (Author: Helena Ribe)
     
  9. Title: Social marginization and survival strategies of urban indigenous communities in Peru, Mexico, and Ecuador (Author: Jorge Uquillas, Tania Carrasco, Martha Rees)
     
  10. Title: Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America: Race. Gender, Labor, and Subsistence (Author: Susan Eckstein)
     
  11. Title: Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America (Author: Kathryn Sikkink)
     
  12. Title: Democracy in Latin America: (Re)Constructing Political Society
    Released by United Nations University; The Changing Nature of Democracy Series
     
  13. Title: Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy (Authors: Coletta A. Youngers and Eileen Rosin)
     
  14. Title: U.S. Foreign Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in Latin America (Essays in Public Policy); Authors: Eduardo Buscaglia and Clarisa Long
     
  15. Title: Gender in Latin America (Authors: Sylvia H. Chant and Nikki Craske)
     
  16. Title: Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America (Publication of Seminar on Feminism and Culture in Latin America)
     
  17. Philanthropy and Social Change in Latin America (Editors: Cynthia Sanborn and Felipe Portocarrero)
     
  18. Title: Understanding Older Chicanas : Sociological and Policy Perspectives
    Author: Elisa Facio
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
     
  19. Title: Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media (Author: Clara E. Rodriguez)
     
  20. Title: Immigrant Women’s Health: Problems and Solutions
    Author: Elizabeth J. Kramer (Editor), Susan L. Ivey (Editor, Yu-Wen Ying (Editor)
    Publisher: Jossey-Bass
     
  21. Title: Latina Health in the United States: A Public Health Reader
    Author: Marilyn Aguirre-Molina (Editor), Carlos W. Molina
    Publisher: Jossey-Bass
     
  22. Title: Hispanic/Latino Identity: A philosophical Perspective (Author: Jorge J. Garcia)
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  23. Title: Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing
    Author:
    Robert T., II Trotter
    Publisher: University of Georgia Press

  


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