From 1964 to 1985, Brazil experienced the longest military dictatorship in Latin American history. Early in this period, a \u201cpurge\u201d of political opposition was driven by the regime\u2019s oppressive measures. Accounts of human rights abuses were many, ranging from arbitrary arrests of opposing politicians and scholars to torture and political assassinations. This website is structured in a way that illustrates some of the most notorious cases that the Commission analyzed, such as the one with the assassination of Olavo Hansen and disappearance of Ana Rosa and Wilson Kucinski. The thirty cases here listed are only but a few of the ones the Commission effectively pursued. Introduction From 1964 to 1985, Brazil experienced the longest military dictatorship in Latin American history. Early in this period, a \u201cpurge\u201d of political opposition was driven by the regime\u2019s oppressive …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"template-frontpage.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/iachrbrazil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/iachrbrazil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/iachrbrazil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/iachrbrazil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/iachrbrazil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/iachrbrazil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/iachrbrazil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/iachrbrazil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe newly established Inter-American Commission on Human Rights<\/em><\/strong> received many of these denunciations. In this project, the Brazil Initiative at Brown University<\/strong><\/em>, in collaboration with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights<\/em><\/strong>, aims to document the cases of human rights abused and elucidate the mechanisms by which the IACHR<\/em><\/strong> opposed the regime.
\nThe project makes available the documentation and correspondence between the case rapporteurs, the Brazilian Government and the claimants of cases of human rights violations. The project also documents the resolutions and discussions of each session of the Commission during this timeline.
\nWith this, the Brazil Initiative and the IACHR<\/strong> aim to instigate scholarship<\/strong> about these interactions and stimulate the understanding of international human rights activism in times of oppression.<\/p>\nHow to use the website<\/h2>\n
\nIn the \u201cCases\u201d section, you can find information on each of these cases, along with the extensive documentation on them. A summary of each case, along with the resolutions and actions from the Commission are also provided.
\nIn the \u201cDocumentation\u201d section, you can search within Brown University\u2019s Digital Repository and in the archives of this project for documentation pertaining but not limited to the cases here developed.
\nFor more information on the collaborators in this project, please see the \u201cAbout\u201d section of the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"