Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, 2002.
Creator: | Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. | Project: | United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP). (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 39 pages Sound recording 2 digital audio tapes | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteSpecial rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar; Member of the UN Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights
Scope and ContentsEarly years: 1944 born in Brazil; law degree from Catholic University in Rio; doctorate from Institut de Hautes Études Politiques in Paris; Career: professor of Political Science at State University of Campinas and University of Sao Paulo in Brazil; research on social history, police repression; 1974-1975 post-doctoral fellow at Yale University Wilson Center; 1987 Center for the Study of Violence at the University of Sao Paulo; 1988-1992 professor at Columbia University; professor at Brown, Notre Dame, Oxford, and Institut de Hautes Études Politiques; 1995 UN special rapporteur to Burundi; UN special rapporteur to Myanmar; 2001-2002 secretary of state for human rights in Brazil; member of the UN Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights; author of Brasil: Um Século de Transformaçôes; Brazil, The International Human Rights System, and The (Un)Rule of Law and The Underprivileged in Latin America. Themes: influenced by Thomas Skidmore and Noberto Bobbio; importance of relocating Office of the High Commissioner to a third-world country; necessity of additional research on poverty, democracy, and implementing human rights standards; structural racism in Brazil; modernity and the lack of traditional society in Brazil; human rights progress in Brazil; admiration for Fernando Henrique
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2003
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