MAKING THE HUMAN RIGHTS TALK MATTER: Are the Brazilian State’s practices really following its rhetoric towards the protection of human rights defenders in the country?

Autores

  • Ulisses Terto Neto Law Lecturer, School of Law, Centro Universitario IESB (Brasilia/DF, Brazil) Researcher Member of the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL/University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom). Link: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul/ Researcher Member of the Group for Studies, Research and Extension about Democracy, Human Rights and Public Policies (Grupo de Estudos, Pesquisa e Extensão sobre Democracia, Direitos Humanos e Políticas Públicas-GDESI / UFMA, Brazil). Link: http://dgp.cnpq.br/buscaoperacional/detalhepesq.jsp?pesq=7117754640971043

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2016.26142

Resumo

Abstract

This paper considers the interplay of international law, politics and national law in the politics of human rights in Brazil through post-1985 Brazilian democratic governments with reference to the foundation of a governmental culture of human rights as well as the institutionalization from 1964 to 2010 of international human rights law into the country’s legal system. Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), it compares, on the one hand, international human rights instruments ratified by Brazil and, on the other hand, significant samples of human rights documents related to the Brazilian transition to democracy. By unveiling influences of the political, economic, social and cultural shifts (developments) towards the creation of the unprecedented Brazilian Programme for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (PPDDH), it finally engages with the questions of whether the Brazilian State’s practices follow its human rights rhetoric as well as whether the Brazilian State’s practices are really following its human rights rhetoric towards the protection of human rights defenders in the country.

 

Keywords: The Politics of Human Rights; International Human Rights Law; Brazilian Programme for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders; Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).

Biografia do Autor

Ulisses Terto Neto, Law Lecturer, School of Law, Centro Universitario IESB (Brasilia/DF, Brazil) Researcher Member of the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL/University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom). Link: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul/ Researcher Member of the Group for Studies, Research and Extension about Democracy, Human Rights and Public Policies (Grupo de Estudos, Pesquisa e Extensão sobre Democracia, Direitos Humanos e Políticas Públicas-GDESI / UFMA, Brazil). Link: http://dgp.cnpq.br/buscaoperacional/detalhepesq.jsp?pesq=7117754640971043

Law Lecturer, School of Law, Centro Universitario IESB (Brasilia/DF, Brazil)
Human Rights Lawyer and Consultant, PhD in International Law (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom), and Masters Degree in Public Policies (Federal University of Maranhao-UFMA, Brazil)Subject Area
  • Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Brazil and Latin America
  • Politics of Human Rights in Brazil and Latin America
  • Anthropology of Human Rights in Brazil and Latin America
  • International Human Rights Law
  • Public Policies (access to justice, health in the penitentiary system etc.)

 

Current Research Work:

Current research is focused on the protection of human rights defenders in Latin America, specifically on a comparative analysis of the public policy for the protection of human rights defenders in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.

Other research and teaching interests have been centered on the development of legal and sociological approaches regarding human rights affairs and scholarship, with particular attention to access to justice and, more recently, concerning the issues involving an effective protection of human rights defenders in Brazil and abroad.

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Publicado

2016-11-19

Como Citar

Terto Neto, U. (2016). MAKING THE HUMAN RIGHTS TALK MATTER: Are the Brazilian State’s practices really following its rhetoric towards the protection of human rights defenders in the country?. REVISTA QUAESTIO IURIS, 9(4), 2263–2311. https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2016.26142