'Our right is the right to be killed': Making rights real on the streets of Guatemala City

Childhood

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 423-442

  Godoy, Angelina Snodgrass ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Marginalization; Rights; Street children

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345778096     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568299006004003     Document Type: Article

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