Video Interview with the Author
Winter 2019, Volume XVIII, Number 2
Flavia Piovesan is a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Professor of Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and 2018 Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. In this interview, she discusses human rights for elderly populations in Latin America.
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