%0 Journal Article
%T Ativismo jur¨ªdico transnacional e o Estado: reflex£¿es sobre os casos apresentados contra o Brasil na Comiss£¿o Interamericana de Direitos Humanos
%A Santos
%A Cec¨ªlia MacDowell
%J Sur. Revista Internacional de Direitos Humanos
%D 2007
%I Sur - Human Rights University Network
%R 10.1590/S1806-64452007000200003
%X this paper analyzes the increased use, by local and transnational human rights ngo, of international legal instruments for the recognition and protection of human rights, a phenomenon the author calls " transnational legal activism".
%K transnational legal mobilization
%K human rights and globalization
%K inter-american commission on human rights
%K brazil
%K memory
%K violence against women
%K racial discrimination.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1806-64452007000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en