Oral history interview with Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, 2002

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Name: Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento) (Interviewee); Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- (Interviewer)
Title: Oral history interview with Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, 2002
Abstract: Early 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 a t 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
Collection Name: United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP)
Subjects: Human rights; Human rights--Brazil; Democracy; Poverty--Research; Brazil Social conditions 20th century; Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento); United Nations Officials and employees; Columbia University Faculty; United Nations History; United Nations. Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Format: oral histories; sound recordings
Genre: Interviews
Date: 2002

Note (Biographical): Special 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
Note: Interviewed by Thomas G. Weiss on May 8 and July 18, 2002
Note (Provenance): Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Gift, 2009
Language: English
Library Location: Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record: 13684790
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-7g9c-6w62
Related URLs: Available digital content for this interview.