In War, Those who Die are Not Innocent ('Na Guerra, Quem Morre Não É Innocente')

Download or read book In War, Those who Die are Not Innocent ('Na Guerra, Quem Morre Não É Innocente') written by Saima Husain and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns itself with the implementation of human rights strategies within the state police forces of Rio de Janeiro as an attempt to improve policing and enhance police compliance with human rights standards. For the sake of this research, police human rights strategies have been defined as those laws, policies, projects, or programs that implicitly or explicitly aim to improve police compliance with human rights values, standards, and norms. The understanding that as state agents the police are supposed to uphold the law, which includes human rights, yet they are often involved in human rights violations has led to a realization of the importance of implementing human rights within the police and increasing police compliance with human rights standards. It is not enough to document human rights violations committed by the police and to demand that these officers be held accountable, there has to be an attempt to get police officers to understand human rights and to respect people's human rights while performing their duties so that human rights violations at the hands of the police occur less frequently. What strategies have been created to improve the police and increase police compliance with human rights standards? How have these strategies been implemented? How do they influence the reality of policing? What are the societal and institutional factors that facilitate or impede the implementation of these strategies? It is these questions and the lack of answers available thereto that inspired this research.