A Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos e a ditadura militar brasileira: análise dos casos individuais de denúncia de violações entre 1970 e 1975

Abstract

This research aims to portray the work of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the denunciations received about the human rights violations committed by the Brazilian State during the period of the military dictatorship. In order to carry out such research, I conducted a bibliographic review and documentary analysis of letters exchanged on some of the cases brought to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights between 1970 and 1975, analyzing their respective contextualization and the solutions presented by the organization. The research is divided into three parts: the first is a theoretical contextualization about what human rights are and how they will be seen during the research, choosing to use principally the human rights conception of the protest school addressed by Dembour and the formation of transnational human rights networks and the boomerang pattern suggested by Sikkink and Keck; the second is a historical review of the period that comprised the military dictatorship in Brazil, its antecedents and finalization; and, finally, an approach to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and its work in the period of the dictatorship, using as object of study some of the cases denounced. Based on this, the position of the Inter-American Commission against the denunciations received during the period and the effectiveness of the organization regarding human rights were evaluated.