Atuação transnacional pelos direitos humanos: o caso da anistia internacional frente à ditadura militar brasileira

Abstract

The Brazilian military dictatorship was the period of greatest political instability and violence against human rights in Brazil. Transnational organizations mobilized themselves to mitigate the consequences of the Brazilian government's brutality, with Amnesty International being the main actor. However, the organization has suffered greatly from the - already expected - lack of cooperation from the Brazilian government in its work, both through on-site investigations and by providing data for its reports. The main objective of this study is to analyze Amnesty International's work in the face of human rights abuses in Brazil through its documents and reports, with the focus on the Report on Accusations of Torture in Brazil, published in 1972, which presents the names of 1081 political prisoners who were tortured in Brazilian state facilities, as well as the denunciation of repression leaders accused of torture.