(Re)Pensando a proteção dos Direitos Humanos: uma análise amefricana e decolonial do caso Simone Diniz vs Brasil

Abstract

How can the actions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in the case of Simone André Diniz v. Brazil influence Brazil's legal and racial dynamics? This work starts from the problem presented, based on the reality of Latin America and Brazil, realities marked by colonization and slavery, which not only left their mark, but also structured the societies, institutions and power in which they were established for centuries. Even with the formal overcoming of colonialism and slavery, their effects still remain with coloniality and racism. This work therefore mobilizes the categories of "decoloniality" and "amefricanity" as a way of combating these effects. In conducting this research, we used the qualitative research technique, documentary analysis and bibliographical research, especially with regard to the documents issued by the IACHR in relation to the Simone Diniz vs Brazil case. We also used dialectical hermeneutics as a theoretical basis and resource to help analyze the case. As a result, we believe that the IACHR's greatest contribution is the dissemination of a culture of respect for human rights, using the category of amefricanity as a starting point for the protection of such rights and as an analytical lens that influences the actions of public authorities, in order to consider the reality of black women in the production and application of government policies, the creation of laws and the administration of justice.