From universal goals to local results: notes for a history of regional human rights protection

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https://doi.org/10.14295/rbhcs.v16i32.16586

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Inter-American Human Rights System, European Human Rights System, African Human Rights System

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We address the evolution of regional human rights systems (Inter-American, European and African) from the perspective of transnational history (or global history). Initially influenced by the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War, the regional systems quickly adapted to their local conditions and developed their own strategies to protect and promote human rights. The three regional systems participated in a collective construction that started from the Western tradition of human rights, but evolved with multilateral contributions emerged from common and specific challenges, which allowed the expansion of human rights protection beyond traditional liberal forms, incorporating a progressive agenda and protecting rights in horizontal relationships between individuals in the European and Inter-American case and collectivist rights in the African case. The result is an approach to human rights that is more responsive to cultural and social conditions.

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Alexander de Castro, UniCesumar

Doutor em Teoria e História do Direito pela Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florença, Itália). Pós-doutorado pela Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster (Alemanha) e pela Freie Universität Berlin (Alemanha) Possui mestrado em Teoria e Filosofia do Direito pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) e graduação em Direito pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM). Foi pesquisador visitante no Centro di Studi per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno da Università degli Studi di Firenze, no Institut für Rechtsgeschichte e no Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik in den Kulturen der Vormoderne und der Moderne, ambos da Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster (Alemanha), bem como no Lateinamerika Institut da Freie Universität Berlin (Alemanha). Também foi resident fellow do Polish Institute of Advanced Studies da Academia de Ciências da Polônia. Trabalhou como pesquisador (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) no Institut für Rechtsgeschichte da Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster. Foi professor substituto na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Atualmente é professor dos cursos de graduação e pós-graduação stricto sensu em Direito (mestrado e doutorado) da UniCesumar-PR. Pesquisador bolsista do Instituto Cesumar de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação - ICETI

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de Castro, A. (2024). From universal goals to local results: notes for a history of regional human rights protection. Revista Brasileira De História & Ciências Sociais, 16(32), 246–269. https://doi.org/10.14295/rbhcs.v16i32.16586

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