História e desventura: O 3° programa nacional de direitos humanos

Abstract

Since the 1988 Brazilian Constitution-the so-called " citizen's constitution" -human rights were considered a mandatory State policy. The reactions to the latest version of the National Human Rights Program-which developed from the earlier versions-have sought, though, to associate it to a sort of revenge from left-leaning sectors of government and society, or to a violation of the rule of law: censorship, state intervention. The article retraces the Program's history of this issue in Brazil and analysis its proposals and the reaction to it.