«Regional Human Rights Systems play a potentially significant role in the protection of fundamental rights and in holding States accountable for human rights violations. This seminar presents two post-doctoral research projects developed at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, which examine different forms of mobilisation of the Inter-American and European human rights systems, highlighting their contribution to the realisation of rights and to strengthening access to justice.

The first focuses on transnational legal activism conducted before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in cases involving rural workers in Brazil, with particular emphasis on the legal translation of social and community demands. The second examines the impact of condemnatory judgements issued by the European Court of Human Rights against Portugal and by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against Brazil for human rights violations within their respective criminal justice systems.

These analyses offer a critical and decolonial reflection on the mobilisation and impact of regional human rights systems in national contexts, contributing to a deeper understanding of the potential and challenges of these mechanisms, through an interdisciplinary dialogue between academic research, human rights and justice.»

Programme

Presentation: Roberta Freitas Guerra (Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – CES/UC and Associate Professor at the Federal University of Viçosa
Commentators: Cecília MacDowell Santos (CES / University of San Francisco/US) e Rita Alcaire (CES/UC)      

Presentation: Fernando Laercio Alves da Silva (Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – CES/UC and Associate Professor at the Federal University of Viçosa)
Commentators: Cecília MacDowell Santos (CES / University of San Francisco/US) e André Luis Del Negri (State University of Mato Grosso do Sul)

Moderation: João Paulo Dias (CES)

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