The rights to memory and truth in the Inter-American paradigms of transitional justice: the cases of Brazil and Chile

The paper deals with the rights of society to the truth and the memory of serious violations of human rights during authoritarian regimes. To do so, use the legal parameters of transitional justice established by the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It directs the analysis...

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Autores: Galindo, Antonella, Passos de Castro, Juliana
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Recursos:Centro de Ensino de Brasília (UNICEUB)
Repositorio:Revista de Direito Internacional
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.uniceub.emnuvens.com.br:article/5064
Acesso em linha:https://www.publicacoesacademicas.uniceub.br/rdi/article/view/5064
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Direito Internacional (International Law); Direitos Humanos (Human Rights)
Brasil, Chile, Memória e verdade, Justiça de transição, Sistema Interamericano (Brazil, Chile, Memory and truth, Transitional justice, Inter-American System)
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Resumo:The paper deals with the rights of society to the truth and the memory of serious violations of human rights during authoritarian regimes. To do so, use the legal parameters of transitional justice established by the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It directs the analysis to a comparison between the experiences of commissions of truth and memory in Brazil and Chile, observing its positive and negative points, from the established objectives of favoring the consolidation of a democratic rule of law where the knowledge and memory of the truth can avoid new authoritarian regimes.