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ISSN 1806-6445 13 international journal on human rights Glenda Mezarobba Between Reparations, Half Truths and Impunity: The Diffi cult Break with the Legacy of the Dictatorship in Brazil v. 7 • n. 13 • dec. 2010 Gerardo Arce Arce Biannual Armed Forces, Truth Commission and Transitional Justice in Peru English Edition REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS Felipe González Urgent Measures in the Inter-American Human Rights System Juan Carlos Gutiérrez and Silvano Cantú The Restriction of Military Jurisdiction in International Human Rights Protection Systems Debra Long and Lukas Muntingh The Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention in Africa and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa: The Potential for Synergy or Inertia? Lucyline Nkatha Murungi and Jacqui Gallinetti The Role of Sub-Regional Courts in the African Human Rights System Magnus Killander Interpreting Regional Human Rights Treaties Antonio M. Cisneros de Alencar Cooperation Between the Universal and Inter-American Human Rights Systems in the Framework of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism IN MEMORIAM Kevin Boyle – Strong Link in the Chain By Borislav Petranov EDITORIAL BOARD ADVISORY BOARD Christof Heyns University of Pretoria (South Africa) Alejandro M. Garro Columbia University (United States) Emilio García Méndez University of Buenos Aires Bernardo Sorj Federal University of Rio de Janeiro / Edelstein (Argentina) Center (Brazil) Fifi Benaboud North-South Centre of the Council of Bertrand Badie Sciences-Po (France) Europe (Portugal) Cosmas Gitta UNDP (United States) Fiona Macaulay Bradford University (United Kingdom) Daniel Mato Central University of Venezuela (Venezuela) Flavia Piovesan Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil) Daniela Ikawa Public Interest Law Institute (United States) J. Paul Martin Columbia University (United States) Ellen Chapnick Columbia University (United States) Kwame Karikari University of Ghana (Ghana) Ernesto Garzon Valdes University of Mainz (Germany) Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyed Cairo University (Egypt) Fateh Azzam Regional Representative, Office of the High Richard Pierre Claude University of Maryland (United Commissioner for Human Rights (Lebanon) States) Guy Haarscher Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) Roberto Garretón Former-UN Officer of the High Jeremy Sarkin University of the Western Cape (South Africa) Commissioner for Human Rights (Chile) João Batista Costa Saraiva Regional Jurisdiction for Children Upendra Baxi University of Warwick (United Kingdom) and Adolescents of Santo Ângelo/RS (Brazil) José Reinaldo de Lima Lopes University of São Paulo (Brazil) EDITORS Juan Amaya Castro University for Peace (Costa Rica) Pedro Paulo Poppovic Lucia Dammert FLACSO (Chile) Oscar Vilhena Vieira Luigi Ferrajoli University of Rome (Italy) EXECUTIVE BOARD Luiz Eduardo Wanderley Pontifical Catholic University of São Albertina de Oliveira Costa Paulo (Brazil) Flavia Scabin Juana Kweitel Malak El Chichini Poppovic Conectas Human Rights (Brazil) Glenda Mezarobba Maria Filomena Gregori University of Campinas (Brazil) Thiago Amparo Maria Hermínia Tavares Almeida University of São Paulo EDITING (Brazil) Renato Barreto Tania Rodrigues Miguel Cillero University Diego Portales (Chile) Mudar Kassis Birzeit University (Palestine) REVISION OF TRANSLATIONS Carolina Fairstein (Spanish) Paul Chevigny New York University (United States) Marcela Vieira (Portuguese) Philip Alston New York University (United States) Paola Limon (English) Roberto Cuéllar M. Inter-American Institute of Human Rights GRAPHIC DESIGN (Costa Rica) Oz Design Roger Raupp Rios Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul ART EDITING (Brazil) Alex Furini Shepard Forman New York University (United States) CIRCULATION Victor Abramovich University of Buenos Aires (UBA) Renato Barreto Victor Topanou National University of Benin (Benin) PRINTING Vinodh Jaichand Irish Centre for Human Rights, National Prol Editora Gráfica Ltda. University of Ireland (Ireland) SUR - International Journal On Human Rights is a biannual journal published in English, Portuguese and Spanish by Conectas Human Rights. It is available on the Internet at <http://www.surjournal.org> SUR is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences); DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals); Scielo and SSRN (Social Science Research Network). In addition, SUR is also available at the following commercial databases: EBSCO and HEINonline. SUR has been rated A1 and B1, in Colombia and in Brazil (Qualis), respectively. SUR. Revista Internacional de Direitos Humanos / Sur – Rede Universitária de Direitos Humanos – v.1, n.1, jan.2004 – São Paulo, 2004 - . Semestral ISSN 1806-6445 Edições em Inglês, Português e Espanhol. 1. Direitos Humanos 2. ONU I. Rede Universitária de Direitos Humanos CONTENTS GLENDA MEZAROBBA 7 Between Reparations, Half Truths and Impunity: The Difficult Break with the Legacy of the Dictatorship in Brazil GERARDO ARCE ARCE 27 Armed Forces, Truth Commission and Transitional Justice in Peru REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS FELIPE GONZÁLEZ 51 Urgent Measures in the Inter-American Human Rights System JUAN CARLOS GUTIÉRREZ AND SILVANO CANTÚ 75 The Restriction of Military Jurisdiction in International Human Rights Protection Systems DEBRA LONG AND LUKAS 99 MUNTINGH The Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention in Africa and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa: The Potential for Synergy or Inertia? LUCYLINE NKATHA MURUNGI 119 AND JACQUI GALLINETTI The Role of Sub-Regional Courts in the African Human Rights System MAGNUS KILLANDER 145 Interpreting Regional Human Rights Treaties ANTONIO M. CISNEROS 171 DE ALENCAR Cooperation Between the Universal and Inter-American Human Rights Systems in the Framework of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism IN MEMORIAM BORISLAV PETRANOV 184 Kevin Boyle – Strong Link in the Chain PRESENTATION ■ ■ ■ We are very pleased to present the 13th Detention in Africa and the Committee issue of Sur Journal, which addresses the for the Prevention of Torture in Africa: subject of regional human rights protec- The Potential for Synergy or Inertia?, tion mechanisms. The purpose of this issue analyze the mandates of these two special is to examine the development of these mechanisms and consider the potential regional systems, their drawbacks and po- for confl ict generated by two mandates tentials, and to discuss the possibility of being held by a single member. cooperation and integration between them This edition of the journal also contains an and the international human rights system. article by Lucyline Nkatha Murungi and The journal’s fi rst article, titled Urgent Jacqui Gallineti on the role of the courts Measures in the Inter-American Hu- of Africa’s Regional Economic Commu- man Rights System, by Felipe González, nities regarding the protection of human reviews the treatment given urgent mea- rights on the continent, in The Role of sures by the Inter-American Court of Hu- Sub-Regional Courts in the African Hu- man Rights and the Inter-American Com- man Rights System. mission on Human Rights (precautionary Magnus Killander, in Interpreting Re- measures, in the case of the Commission, gional Human Rights Treaties, illustrates and provisional measures, in the case of how regional human rights courts have, for the Court). the purposes of interpreting international Juan Carlos Gutiérrez and Silvano Cantú, treaties on the subject, followed the rules in The Restriction of Military Jurisdic- established by the Vienna Convention on tion in International Human Rights the Law of Treaties. Protection Systems, examine cases from Antonio M. Cisneros de Alencar, in Co- the Universal, Inter-American, African operation Between the Universal and and European human rights protection Inter-American Human Rights Systems systems in order to place the matter of in the Framework of the Universal Peri- military jurisdiction in a comparative odic Review Mechanism, makes the claim perspective, particularly when this juris- that despite new opportunities for coop- diction applies to civilians, whether they eration between the global and regional are passive or active subjects. human rights systems, a great deal more Addressing the African system specifi - can still be done to make the Inter-Amer- cally, Debra Long and Lukas Muntingh, ican system benefi t from the UN Human in their article titled The Special Rap- Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Re- porteur on Prisons and Conditions of view Mechanism. We hope that this issue of Sur Journal ing the country’s armed confl ict in light of will draw the attention of human rights the relations between the Peruvian armed activists, civil society organizations and forces and the political and civil spheres of academics to the possibility of a greater its society, in Armed Forces, Truth Com- cooperation and integration between the mission and Transitional Justice in Peru. regional and the international human This is the second issue released with the rights systems. collaboration of the Carlos Chagas Foun- We have also included in this issue the ar- dation (FCC), which started supporting ticle Strong Link in the Chain, by Borislav Sur Journal in 2010. We would like to Petranov, a homage to Professor Kevin thank the FCC once again for its support, Boyle, an exceptional academic and hu- which has guaranteed the continued pro- man rights defender, and a tireless partner duction of the print version of this jour- of Sur Journal and the other initiatives