POLITICAL PATHS OF FORCED DISAPPEARANCE IN BRAZIL: CONCEPTUAL “TRANSLATION” AND PROCESSING OF SENATE BILL NO. 245/2011/BILL NO. 6240/2013
disappearance; forced disappearance; criminalization; Bill; vernacularization; human rights.
The objective of this thesis is to map what has been understood in recent years as forced disappearance and disappearance in Brazil, especially between 2011 and 2024, mainly based on the political and legislative debates surrounding Senate Bill 245/2011, which has been under discussion in the Federal Chamber since 2013, and which is known as Bill 6240/2013 and provides for the criminalization of forced disappearance in Brazil. The methodology used was vernacularization, originating from Legal Anthropology, which consists of adapting human rights in their international understanding to the local circumstances in which one lives, and which, therefore, can be understood as a mediation between the transnational production of human rights and their subsequent insertion into local networks of meanings. Thus, identifying the problems in the legislative process behind the PL, as well as providing clues as to what the causes are (the diagnosis of the problem) of disappearances in Brazil and, more boldly, discussing ways to address them, based on experience as a public administrator at the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, contributes to understanding the effects of this discussion on the construction of a public agenda on forced disappearance