Transnational legal activism and the state: reflections on cases against Brazil in the inter-American commission on human rights

ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: This paper analyzes the increased use, by local and transnational human rights NGO, of international legal instruments for the recognition and protection of human rights, a phenomenon the author calls `transnational legal activism'. // ABSTRACT IN PORTUGUESE: Este artigo an...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sur : international journal on human rights 2007-01, Vol.7 (4), p.29-60
1. Verfasser: MacDowell Santos, Cecília
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: This paper analyzes the increased use, by local and transnational human rights NGO, of international legal instruments for the recognition and protection of human rights, a phenomenon the author calls `transnational legal activism'. // ABSTRACT IN PORTUGUESE: Este artigo analisa o crescente uso, por ONG locais e transnacionais de direitos humanos, dos instrumentos jurídicos internacionais para o reconhecimento e a proteção dos direitos humanos, um fenômeno que a autora denomina de "ativismo jurídico transnacional". // ABSTRACT IN SPANISH: Este trabajo analiza el uso creciente que las ONG locales y trasnacionales de derechos humanos hacen de instrumentos legales internacionales para reconocer y proteger los derechos humanos, fenómeno que la autora denomina "activismo legal transnacional".
ISSN:1806-6445