Human Rights: Not a Priority for Brazilian Diplomacy

• 作者: Patrick Howlett-Martin
• 来源期刊: 美中法律评论:英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: world's highest rates of homicides world's third largest PRISON population recurring use of TORTURE by police WHITE-COLLAR and politicians CORRUPTION discriminations VIOLATIONS of indigenous people's legitimate rights
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（3）
• 页码范围: 114-126
• 页数: 13页
• 分类号: D

摘要

Brazil has played a constructive role on the United Nations Human Rights Council since its creation in 2006 with an inclination for abstention, justified by a desire for a balanced approach towards regimes of different history, traditional values, and cultural background. It is uneasy for Brazilian diplomacy to lay all the blame at a regime and turn a blind eye to Brazil’s violent and unequal social reality. Brazil’s many social shortcomings represent a major handicap in its multilateral approach to humanitarian issues. With the election in October 2018 of Jair Bolsonaro, a former member of Congress who has endorsed torture and made openly racist, homophobic and misogynist statements, homicides, unlawful killings by police, discriminations, social unrest and violations of human rights are expecting to reach a new record in Brazil.