É preciso palavras para construir o silêncio: o genocídio de Ruanda no discurso oficial do Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas

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2008

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The thesis main objective is to check the hypothesis of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) omission towards the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and to verify the implications of the Councils official decisions over the Human Rights International Regime. Therefore, I analyze the UNSCs resolutions from 05 October 1993 to 22 June 1994, focusing on two aspects: (i) the way the Security Council portrayed the genocide; (ii) the responsibility it entitled to itself in preventing it. Following this part, based on Nicholas Onufs social constructivist paradigm, I reflect on the relation between the Councils decisions and the Human Rights International Regime. I present four main conclusions: (i) the UNSC portrayed the massacres in Rwanda mostly as a consequence of a civil war, in spite of acknowledging it was in fact a genocidal campaign; (ii) with considerable delay, the Security Council recognized its responsibility in assisting the victims, but on the basis that those people were civil war innocent victims, not victims of genocide; (iii) most of the time, the UNSC decisions privileged the principle of sovereignty over the norms concerning the universality of the human rights; (iv) in doing so, the Council neglected its responsibility towards the prevention of genocide, thus contributing to weaken the process of constitution of violations of human rights as threats against international security.

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regime internacional dos direitos humanos conselho de segurança das nações unidas the human rights international regime genocídio ruanda soberania relacoes i?internacionais, bilaterais e multilaterais rwanda sovereignty genocide the un security council

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