Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia

Human Rights, Hegemony and Utopia in Latin America explores the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights, within the context of cases in contemporary Mexico and Colombia, and their broader implications.

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Juris Doctor (1981, Northeastern University Law School, Boston), Executive Director, Human Rights Center, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton (Ohio); Research Associate, FLACSO-Guatemala; Fellow, Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), University of Bergen (Norway).

Karla Hernández Mares, B.A in International Relations (2005, Instituto Tecnólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey-ITESM, Mexico), candidate Master´s program in Human Rights and Democracy (FLACSO-Mexico City), human rights advocate and professional photographer; researcher, Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Mexico office).