
Rainforest Warriors : Human Rights on Trial.
Title:
Rainforest Warriors : Human Rights on Trial.
Author:
Price, Richard.
ISBN:
9780812203721
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Series:
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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