Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement 1964-1985

<p><em>Brazil and Transnational Human Rights Movement 1964</em>-<em>1985</em> explores how solidarity for Brazil contributed to the global human rights movement of the 1970s. Through protests petitions posters and numerous other cultural artistic and media-based campaigns solidarity for Brazil popularised the language of human rights and prompted the international community to join the fight against the country's military regime. But solidarity for Brazil also reframed the debate on human rights itself stretching the concept beyond mainstream interpretations that emphasised the violation of 'basic' individual rights such as the use of torture and political imprisonment to also incorporate social and economic rights inequality indigenous minorities and the human rights responsibilities of multinational companies and development projects. Crucial to this process were multiple networks of exiles catholic activists journalists and academics between Brazil and Western Europe who drew from the Latin American experience to challenge mainstream narratives of human rights from below.</p>