Human Rights and Public Security: The Case of Pacification Policy Units (UPPs) at Rio de Janeiro Favelas
Considering the signing of the human rights treaty at the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993, the creation of the National Human Rights Program (PNDH) by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 1996 and the debates on the subject that have been rising since 2013, the present work proposes to reflect on the relationship between human rights and public safety, based on the study of the Pacifier Police Units (UPPs) in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Thus, the central question is: do the UPPs present a way of functioning of the police institution according to human rights? Our hypothesis is that although the formulation of the UPPs was structured based on a logic of action different from that practiced until then, it did not have major impacts on the way the institution operates within these spaces.