Taking on the world's repressive regimes : the ford foundation's international human rights ... policies and practices

## Origins and Background x in a position to be helpful. And he has performed that function once again, and I am most appreciative. An especially warm and grateful "thank you" is extended herewith to the gifted and talented typist of this manuscript, Suzanne Garnet, who managed to juggle the reading of hieroglyphics with rearing a family, including two lovely, if somewhat noisy, children. Front Matter....Pages i-x Origins and Background....Pages 1-23 Chile: A Breakthrough in Foundation Policy....Pages 25-45 Foundation Policy Across Latin America....Pages 47-68 The “Human Rights Lobby”....Pages 69-87 U.S. Helsinki Watch: The Foundation in Eastern Europe....Pages 89-117 The “Foundation for European Intellectual Cooperation”....Pages 119-137 Taking Risks on South Africa....Pages 139-159 The Rejection of “Fatalism”....Pages 161-183 A Historic Role....Pages 185-207 Women’s Rights: “A Position of Empowerment”....Pages 209-227 From Nairobi to Beijing....Pages 229-248 A Stumble and Strides Forward....Pages 249-269 Back Matter....Pages 271-315 A study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major world repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the twentieth century. This is a study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the twentieth century

This is a study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the twentieth century.