Documenting human rights abuses among the diaspora: Lessons learned from the liberian truth and reconciliation commission

Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights Actors and Issues in Contemporary Human Rights Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 141-157

  Minikon, Patricia B ^a   Shepler, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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