A Short History of Human Rights in the Americas

Abstract This chapter re-writes the history of human rights in the Americas by questioning the universality of the hegemonic Eurocentric and State-centric narrative with the recovery of a history set in the context of modern colonialism. This new and more comprehensive narrative occurs from Patagonia to Alaska since the times of the conquest of America to today. Throughout this era States, empires, colonial States, colonial and transnational companies, and international financial institutions ha