O DIREITO INTERNACIONAL DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS E O COMBATE À TORTURA NO BRASIL

Abstract

This work aims to highlight the human rights law, emphasizing the practice of torture in the international scope, and its impact on Brazilian law. In the first chapter is followed by the search for a foundation of human dignity, which then immediately brings up the issue of torture observing valuable lessons arising from Verri, Beccaria and Foucaut. By contextualizing the torture, there is the historical practice of torture from ancient times through the Enlightenment to get to the criminalization of torture in the Contemporary Age. The second chapter covers the internationalization of human rights and the crime of torture, during which promotes a deepening of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of which Brazil is a signatory, highlighting its internal divisions such as the called Committee against Torture, which was established by the Convention. Following a logical reasoning, adds Chapter 3 about torture in Brazil and the country's failure to enforce the regulation which provides domestic and international. It is a contextualization of the crime nationwide highlighting the inadequacy of the Law N. 6.683/1979 to punish the torturers of the dictatorship who once settled in the country, demonstrating the current reality of crime in Brazil today, ending with specific comments about the Law No. 9.455/1997.