The real profiles of Brazilian public defender:

exercising ombudsman function in defense of hu-man rights

Authors

  • Daniela Vieira De Melo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46901/revistadadpu.i09.p%25p

Keywords:

Public Defender. Access to Justice. Human Rights. Ombudsman. Democracy.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigate how the Brazilian Public Defender – as other countries in Latin America such as Argentina, Guatemala, Colombia, among others, and in the world as the Spanish defensor del pueblo and classical Swedish Ombudsman – has exercised its functions in the work carried out by molds Ombudsman. How has this function been treated doctrinally? And why is it important for the protection and consolidation of human rights, particularly in Brazil? What, therefore, their actual outlines, especially after the recent and progressive legislative changes in Brazilian law brought by ECs nos 74/13; 80/14 and the decisions of the Brazilian Supreme Court.

Published

07-12-2018

How to Cite

Vieira De Melo, D. (2018). The real profiles of Brazilian public defender:: exercising ombudsman function in defense of hu-man rights. Revista Da Defensoria Pública Da União, 1(09). https://doi.org/10.46901/revistadadpu.i09.p%p