Os Estados Unidos e o México na Revisão Periódica Universal do conselho de direitos humanos da ONU

Abstract

The UN Human Rights Council was created in 2006, in an attempt to abandon the difficulties experienced by the previous Human Rights Commission, such as allegations of political selectivity. Together with the Council, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was born as a mechanism for monitoring compliance with international human rights standards by States, which undergo scrutiny by their own peers. The present research, which has the UPR as its object, assumes that a mechanism composed of States cannot be apolitical. Thus, based on a case study, it seeks to answer the following question: what were the variables involved in the decision-making process of what would be recommended by Mexico to the United States and from the United States to Mexico, within the scope of the UPR? For this, we analyzed in detail all the recommendations between these two countries and found possible answers in the migratory context between them, and in the theories about the boomerang movement, state capacities and failed states, until we conclude the analysis from the theory of Nested Games.