Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Beginning of the Human Rights Era: Military Repression -- 2 Human Rights Organizing Spreads: Mexico and the Theoretical Frame -- 3 Human Rights after the Military: Settling Accounts and Facing Issues -- 4 Contemporary Democracy and Efflorescence of Human Rights Organizing -- 5 Contemporary Societies under Siege: Peru, Politics, and Public Secrets -- 6 Transnational Networking for Human Rights Protection -- 7 Response in the United States: Challenging Foreign Policy -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index.