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The Recovery of Truth and Justice--Comparing China and Latin America Human rights movements in late 20th century

Haojun ShiThe Experimental High School Attached to BNU, Beijing, 100032, China*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

In the 1970s, the international human rights entered its golden age. Latin America, as an area having experienced severe human rights violations during the military dictatorship, became the center of the international human rights movements. In the same period, China, ending the chaotic state of cultural revolution, also started its human rights discourse by beginning the open up reform. This paper aims to compare the human rights movements in China and Latin America by reading important primary sources of human rights movements and analyzing them. Unlike Latin American human rights, the Chinese human rights movements focus more on economic rights, emphasizing more on collective welfare instead of particular groups, and are propelled mainly by government.

Keywords: international human rights; Chinese 1978 reform; economic rights; collective welfare
Published: February 28, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/2/2022649
Volume: CHR Vol.2
pp. 230-239
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