HUMAN RIGHTS IN PRISON MATTERS IN BRAZIL, PERU AND VENEZUELA: ADVOCACY AND INCIDENCES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS BEFORE THE IDH COURT
Social Movements, Advocacy, Human Rights; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; prison system.
This dissertation project aims to analyse the advocacy practices developed by social movements before the IA Court in defence of human rights in prison matters in Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. The study is outlined through the observation of the critical theory of human rights, the forms of organisation of social movements and the formation of transnational advocacy networks that act across borders, fostering actions that have repercussions on changes in States of a "boomerang pattern": moving from the local to the transnational and back to the local. This dynamic will be observed by verifying the practices employed to report and monitor cases of human rights violations in prison matters in Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. Adopting the multiple case study methodology, one case from each State will be analysed. The cases were strategically chosen: Curado Penitentiary Complex v. Brazil; Azul Rojas Marín v. Peru and Cárcel Yare I y Yare II v. Venezuela. The three cases were denounced by social movements and were sanctioned by the IA Court, and the study hopes to be able to diagnose the forms of action of civil society organisations in each case.