Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Papers
Books and Monographs
Human Rights website featuring articles and reports on Human Rights in Brazil.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights' plan to identify the main obstacles to the promotion and protection of Human Rights in Brazil.
Website with information and data on Human Rights in Brazil.
CMI is a network of independent media struggling to offer critic and good quality information to the people in order to contribute to the construction of a free and just society, respecting the environment. CMI Brasil é uma rede de produtores independentes de mídia que busca oferecer ao público informação alternativa e crítica de qualidade que contribua para a construção de uma sociedade livre, igualitária e que respeite o meio ambiente. CMI es una red de medios independientes que busca ofrecer al público información crítica y de buena calidad, para contribuir en la construcción de una sociedad libre y justa respetando el medio ambiente.
Contiene listas de desaparecidos, documentos, y enlaces de interés.
Contiene informes, artículos y legislación sobre derechos humanos en Brazil.
Human Rights Internet's annual report of UN human rights developments for Brazil, provides brief synopsis of treaties, ratification, reservations, and periodic reports on all pertinent UN campaigns.
San Francisco based NGO whose goal is to build stronger connections between social movements in Brazil and the US.
Movement borne out of hope and the need felt by thousands of people across the globe - the desire to set children free from servitude. Human Rights Violations, Statistics on Children in the Labor Market, Slavery, Trafficking, Prostitution, Crime. Etc
Includes links to NGO's as well as links to country information, articles, press, and related issues.
Excellent resource for up to date information on human rights issues in Brazil, news releases,
publications and statements. A Human Rights Watch dedica-se à protecção dos direitos humanos dos povos do mundo inteiro.
Commission Report on the situation on Human Rights in Brazil in 1997.
Seu principal objetivo é investir na formação de uma cultura jornalística que investigue e priorize as questões relativas ao universo infanto-juvenil, sempre sob a ótica dos seus direitos.
Adorno, Sérgio. "Insegurança Versus Direitos Humanos - Entre a Lei e a Ordem," Tempo Social, 11, 2, São Paulo (Febuary, 2000): 129-153.
Bonetti, Alinne de Lima. "Novas Configurações: Direitos Humanos das Mulheres, Feminismo e Participação Política entre Mulheres de Grupos Populares Porto-Alegrenses," in Regina Reyes and Roberto Kant de Lima, (eds.), NOVAES, EdUFF, (2001).
Caldeira, Teresa Pires do Rio. "Direitos Humanos ou 'Privilegios de Bandidos'? Desventuras da Democratização Brasileira," Novos Estudos, 30, CEBRAP (Julho, 1991): 162-174.
Dassin, Joan. "Testimonial Literature and the Armed Struggle in Brazil," in Corradi, Juan, Ed., Fear at the Edge: State Terror and Resistance in Latin America, University of California Press, Berkley, CA, (1992): 161-183.
Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense. "Brazil,"
EAAF Annual Report 2001, (2001): 24-29. También disponible
en Español: "Brazil," EAAF Informe Anual 2001,
(2001): 26-31.
Available in English at (9-7-2005): http://www.eaaf.org/reports/AR2001/06BRAZIL.PDF
Disponible en Español en (9-7-2005): http://www.eaaf.org/reports/AR2001/06BRAZIL-SP.PDF
Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense. "Brazil,"
EAAF Biannual Report 1996-97, (1997): 43-49.
Available at (9-7-2005): http://www.eaaf.org/reports/AR9697/04Brazil96_97.pdf
Espinosa Mavila, Olga. "Mujeres Presas en Brasil. Una Aproximación,"
Ponencia presentada durante el seminario-taller: Violencia contra las
Mujeres Privadas de Libertad en América Latina, Comisión
Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos- Comisión
de Derechos Humanos del D.F.-DPLF, México, D.F., México
(Abril 28-29, 2003).
Available at (6-21-2005): http://www.dplf.org/PPL/span/mx_ppl03/mx_ppl03_Espinosa.pdf
Feirinder, Marin. "Judicial Review and the Protection of Human Rights under Military Governments in Brazil and Argentina," Suffolk Transnational Law Journal, 5 (1998): 171-99.
Hamber, Brandon. "Lessons for South Africa about Truth, Justice and Crime in Brazil," Latin American Report, 13, 2 (July-December, 1998): 4-16.
Holston, James and Teresa Caldeira. "Democracy, Law and Violence: Disjunctions of Brazilian Citizenship," in F. Aguero and J. Stark, (eds.), Fault Lines of Democratic Governance in the Americas, North-South Center and Lynne Riener Publishers, Miami, USA (1997). Also available at: Comparative Studies in Society & History, 41 (1999): 691-729.
King, John. "Comparative Analysis of Human Rights Violations under Military Rule in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay," Statistical Abstract on Latin America, 27 (1989): 1049-1050.
Lima, Roberto Kant de. "Constituição, Direitos Humanos e Processo Penal Inquisitorial: Quem Cala, Consente?," Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais, 33, 3, Rio de Janeiro (1990): 471-487.
Mesquita Neto, Paulo de. "Armed Forces, Police, and Democracy in Brazil," Paper presented to the sawyer Seminar on the Military, Politics and Society, New School for Social Research, November 4, New York, NY, 1997.
Miranda, Nilmário and Valadao, Roberto. Relatorio final da comissao externa destinada a atuar junto aos familiars dos mortos e desaparecidos políticos após 1964, na localizacao dos seus restos mortais, Camara dos Deputados, Congresso Nacional, Brasília, (September, 1994).
Moog Rodrigues, Maria Guadalupe. "Indigenous Rights in Modern Brazil",
Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 24, 2002:487-512.
Available at (3-28-2006): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v024/24.2rodrigues.pdf
Paes-Machado, Eduardo and Cea Vilar Noronha. "El Control y Uso de la Fuerza en Brasil," in Christopher H. Birkbeck and Luís Gerardo Gabaldón, (eds.), Policía y Fuerza Física en Perspectiva Intercultural, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Nueva Sociedad, Caracas, Venezuela, (2003).
Paixão, Antonio Luiz. "Segurança Privada, Direitos Humanos e Democracia: Notas preliminares Sobre Novos Dilemas Políticos," Novos Estudos CEBRAP, São Paulo, 31 (1991): 130-141.
Pereira, Anthony W. "Political Justice under Authoritarian Regimes in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile," Human Rights Review, 4, 2, (2003):27-47.
Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio. "Democratic Consolidation and Human
Rights in Brazil," Working Paper, 256, The Hellen Kellog Institute
for International Studies, University of Notre Dame (June, 1998).
Available at (5-6-2005): http://www.nd.edu/~kellogg/WPS/256.pdf
Reale Jr., Miguel. "A Commisão Especial de Reconhecimento dos Mortos e Desaperecidos Políticos," in Janaína Teles, org., Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos: Reparação ou Impunidade?, Editora Humanitas, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, (2000).
Ribeiro de Oliveira, Isabel. "Citizenship and Human Rights Policy in Brazil," in Richard S. Hillman, John A. Peeler and Elsa Cardozo da Silva, (eds.), Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, USA (2002).
Ron, Ahnen. "Between Tyranny of the Majority and Liberty: The Persistence of Human Rights Violations under Democracy in Brazil," Bulletin of Latin American Research, 22, 3 (July, 2003): 319-339.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy and Daniel Hoffman. "Brazilian Apartheid: Street Kids and the Struggle for Urban Space," in Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood, University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA, USA (1998): 352-388.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. "Small Wars and Invisible Genocides," Social Science and Medicine, 43, 5 (1996): 889-899.
Serbin, Kenneth P. "The Anatomy of a Death: Repression, Human Rights and the Case of Alexandre Vannucchi Leme in Authoritarian Brazil," Journal of Latin American Studies, 30, 1 (February, 1998): 1-33.
Viola, Eduardo J and James W Nickel. "Integrando a Defesa dos Direitos Humanos e do Meio Ambiente: Lições do Brasil," Novos Estudos, 40, CEBRAP, São Paulo, (1994): 171-184.
Americas Watch. Final Justice: Police and Death Squad Homicides of Adolescents in Brazil, Americas Watch, New York, NY, USA, 1994.
Americas Watch. The Killings in Candelária and Vigário Geral: the Urgent Need to Police the Brazilian Police, Americas Watch, New York, NY, USA, 1993.
Americas Watch. Urban Police Violence in Brazil: Torture and Police Killings in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro after Five Years, Americas Watch, New York, NY, USA, 1993.
Amnesty International. Brazil: "No One Here Sleeps Safely":
Human Rights Violations Against Detainees, Amnesty International,
New York, NY, USA, 1999.
Amnesty International. Brazil: Human Rights Defenders: Protecting
Human Rights for Everyone, Amnesty International USA, New York, NY,
USA, 1998.
Amnesty International. Brazil Cases of Killings and Ill-Treatment
of Indigenous People, Amnesty International, London, 1988.
Amnesty International. Brazil: Authorized Violence in Rural Areas,
Amnesty International, London, 1988.
Andreu-Guzmán, Federico. Violência: o Brasil Cruel e sem Maquiagem, Editora Moderna, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, 1994.
Barbosa, Vivaldo. A Rebeliao da Legalidade, Editora Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, 2002.
Brandão, M., A. Papi and J.L.C. Jardineiro, Eds. The Killing of Children and Adolescents in Brazil, Center for the Mobilization of Marginalized Populations, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1990.
Cavallaro, James and Anna Claudia Monteiro. Brazil, Fighting Violence with Violence: Human Rights Abuse and Criminality in Rio de Janeiro, Human Rights Watch/America, New York, NY, USA, 1996.
Chiavenato, Júlio José. O golpe de '64 e a ditadura militar, Editoria Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2000.
Costa Couto, Ronaldo. Historia indiscreta da ditadura e da abertura,
Editora Record, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1999.
D'Araujo, Maria Celina, et. al. Os anos de chumbo: A memoria militar sobre a repressao, Relume Dumara, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994.
Dammert, Lucía and John Bailey, (eds.). Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas, University of Pittsburgh Press, USA, 2005. También disponible en Español: Seguridad y Reforma Policial en las Américas, Siglo XXI, Mexico, 2006.
Dassin, Joan, (ed.). Torture in Brazil: A Report by the Archdiocese of Sao Paulo (Brasil: Nunca Mais), Vintage Books, New York, USA, 1986.
Dimenstein, Gilberto, org. Democracia em Pedaços: Direitos Humanos no Brasil, Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, 1996.
Dimenstein, Gilberto. Brazil: War on Children, Trans. C. Whitehouse, London, 1991.
Gaspari, Elio. A ditadura envergonhada, As ilusioes armadas, Companhia das Letras, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2002a.
Gaspari, Elio. A ditadura escancarada, As ilusioes armadas, Companhia
das Letras, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2002b.
Gorenstein, Fabiana, Leonardo Jun Ferreira Hidaka, and Jayme Benvenuto Lima Jr., (orgs.). Manual de Direitos Humanos Internacionais: Acesso aos Sistemas Global e Regional de Proteção dos Direitos Humanos, Edições Loyola, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, 2002.
Heinz, Wolfgang S and Hugo Früling. Determinants of Gross Human Rights: Violations by State and State-sponsored Actors in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina, 1960-1990, Springer, 1999.
Huggins, Martha K. et al., Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities, University of California Press, USA, 2002.
Lemos-Nelson, Ana Tereza. "Judiciary Police Accountability for Gross Human Rights Violations: the Case of Bahia, Brazil," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2001.
Martins Filho, Joao Roberto. O palacio e a caserna: A dinamica militar das crises politicas na ditadura (1964-1969), Editora da UFSCar, Sao Carlos, Brazil, 1996.
Ministério das Relações Exteriores. Direitos Humanos: Atualização do Debate, Departamento Cultural e de Divulgação, Ministério das Relações Exteriores, UNDP, Brasília, Brasil, 2004.
Miranda, Nilmário and Tiburcio, Carlos. Dos filhos deste solo. Mortos e desaparecidos políticos durante a ditadura militar: A responsabilidade do estado, Editora Fundacao Perseu Abramo/Boitempo Editorial, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1999.
Pinheiro, Paulo Sergio. Democratic Consolidation and Human Rights
in Brazil, The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies,
Notre Dame, Ind, 1998.
Projeto "Brasil: Nunca Mais," Perfil dos atingidos, Vol. 3, Editora Voces, Petrópolis, Brazil, 1988.
Rabelo, Jose Maria and Rabelo Thereza. Diaspora: Os longos caminhos do exilio, Geracao Editorial, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2001.
Ramos, Andre de Carvalho. Direitos Humanos em Juízo: Comentários aos Casos Contenciosos e Consultivos da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos e Estudo da Implementação dessas Decisões no Direito Brasileiro, Editora, Max Limonad, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, 2001.
Rezende, Maria José de. A ditadura militar no brasil: Repressão e pretensão de legitimidade, 1964-1984, Editora UEL, Londrina, 2001.
Santos, Ebe Campinha dos. Direitos Humanos e suas Representações no Campo de Defesa dos Direitos Infanto-Juvenis no Rio de Janeiro, Tese de Mestrado em Serviço Social, Departamento de Serviço Social - CCS/PUC/RJ, Rio de Janeiro, 1997.
Serbin, Kenneth P. Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000.
Simas, Mario. Gritos de Justica: Brasil 1963-1979, Editora FTD,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1986.
Smith, Anne-Marie. A Forced Agreement: Press Acquiescence to Censorship in Brazil, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997.
Sorj, Bernardo. A Democracia Inesperada: Cidadania, Direitos Humanos e Desigualdade Social, Jorge Zahar, (ed.), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2004.
Symonides, Janusz. Direitos Humanos: Novas Dimensões e Desafios, Ministério da Justiça, Brasília, Brasil, 2002.
Universidade de São Paulo, [et al]. Os Direitos Humanos no Brasil, USP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, 1993.
Waiselfisz, Jacobo. Mapa da Violência III: Os Jovens do Brasil: Juventude, Violência e Cidadania, UNESCO, Insituto Ayrton Senna, Ministério da Justiça/SEDH, Brasília, Brasil, 2002.
Weschler, Lawrence. A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers, 2nd Ed., University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA, 1998.
Wolfgang S. Heinz and Hugo Frühling. Determinants of Gross Human Rights Violations by State and State-Sponsored Actors in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina 1960-1990, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Cambridge, MA: Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Kluwer Law International, The Hague, Boston:, 1999.
Zaverucha, Jorge. Fragil Democracia: Collor, Itamar, FHC e os Militares, 1990-1998, Editora Civilizacao Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2000.
Media
Amnesty International. Briefing: "Brazil: Torture and Extrajudicial Execution in Urban Brazil," (June, 1990)
Brooke, James. "Brazil's Police Enforce Popular Punishment: Death," New York Times, (November 4, 1992)