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| Author(s): |
Carla Cristina Vreche
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2023-05-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Andrei Koerner;
Frederico Normanha Ribeiro de Almeida;
Matheus de Carvalho Hernandez;
Teresa Cristina Schneider Marques;
Débora Alves Maciel
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| Advisor: | Andrei Koerner |
| Abstract | |
The research’s general theme is the NGOs’ performance in international relations and their role in consolidating the international human rights regime. Its empirical object is the participation of Amnesty International (AI) in the creation process of the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT). The case is relevant because it was the AI’s first international thematic campaign, and it was also successful due to the UNCAT creation: a binding international instrument of recognized importance and that innovated mechanisms for human rights protection. From the analysis of the NGO’s action in context, the research elucidates the Amnesty agency and the factors that constitute such power in its institutional development and political action. It was possible to approach the theme incorporation events by the organization, a multilevel and multithematic strategy elaboration, the role in the construction of the international debate of this practice condemnation, and the activity results regarding the performance conditions (in terms of material and political resources). Thus, the case study qualitative methods were used by analyzing documents and participants’ reports, such as memories of meetings, reports, newsletters, and campaign materials. The research argument is that AI’s performance was central to the Convention creation achieved through its mobilization, but also based on its recognized authority in the field, with the NGO occupying the central position in the articulated network of actors for the case. This action still brought two notable impacts. The external impacts relate to the inauguration of a new stage of activism, instigating and inspiring the transnational activity of other human rights entities. The internal one reflects the institutional effects of this involvement. Therefore, Amnesty faced a powerful movement toward institutionalization and bureaucratization. Such conditions explain the relevant position in the process, despite the entity’s formal distance during the final negotiation of the new document. In 1984, when UNCAT was created, AI was a reference, and its position had turned into an example to be followed (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/16992-6 - The role of Amnesty International in the creation process of the United Nations Convention against torture and other treatments or cruel penalties, inhuman or degrading |
| Grantee: | Carla Cristina Vreche |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |