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List of IllustrationsList of FiguresList of TablesNote on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK1: LEIGH A. PAYNE AND KARINA ANSOLABEHERE: Conceptualising Post-Transition Disappearances2: BARBARA A. FREY: Conceptualising Disappearances in International LawPART II. COUNTRY CASE STUDIESMEXICO3: LULU HERRERA WITH PAULA CUELLAR CUELLAR: My Promise to Look for You4: KARINA ANSOLABEHERE AND ALVARO MARTOS: Disappearances in Mexico: An Analysis based on the Northeast Region5: SANDRA SERRANO AND VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST: The Legal Framework on Disappearances in Mexico: From Demands to the Law and Back to DemandsBRAZIL6: DE?BORA MARIA DA SILVA WITH RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMPCAO: Woman, Mother, Human Rights Defender7: JAVIER AMADEO AND RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMPCAO: State Violence in Brazil: Execution, Slaughter, and Disappearance in the Post-Authoritarian Era8: MARLON ALBERTO WEICHERT: Systematic Recurrence of Murders and Disappearances in Democratic BrazilARGENTINA9: SERGIO MALDONADO, GERMAN MALDONADO, STELLA PELOSO AND ENRIQUE MALDONADO: Letters for Santiago10: NATALIA FEDERMAN, MARCELA PERELMAN, MICHELLE CANAS COMAS AND GASTON CHILLIER: Disappearances in Post Transitional Argentina: A Challenge For Human Rights InterventionEL SALVADOR11: 'WILSON': Wilson's Testimony: Abuse of Authority12: MARIA JOSE MENDEZ: New Generation of Disappearances: Gangs and the State in El SalvadorPART III.  TOOLS FOR ADVOCACY AND MOBILIZATION13: LEIGH A. PAYNE AND HUNTER JOHNSON: The Visual Image as a Tool of Power14: BARBARA A. FREY: Using the Minnesota Protocol to Investigate in Disappearance Cases15: RAINER HUHLE: 'Urgent Actions' for the Search of Disappeared Persons in the specialised Bodies of the United Nations16: MICHAEL W. CHAMBERLIN: Using the International Criminal Court to Denounce Disappearances: Crimes against Humanity in Coahuila, Mexico17: SANDRA SERRANO: Forced disappearances in the Inter-American Human Rights System18: VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST: How to Create a Search Mechanism for Disappeared Persons: Lessons from MexicoConclusionsIndex

1 vol. (XVII-288 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 24 cm.

The book identifies a new human rights phenomenon. While disappearances have tended to be associated with authoritarian state and armed conflict periods, this study looks at these acts carried out in procedural democracies where democratic institutions prevail.

Disappearances in the post-transition era in Latin America