Since the 1988 Brazilian Constitution - the so-called "citizen's constitution" - human rights were considered a mandatory State policy. The reactions to the latest version of the National Human Rights Program - which developed from the earlier versions - have sought, though, to associate it to a sort of revenge from left-leaning sectors of government and society, or to a violation of the rule of law: censorship, state intervention. The article retraces the Program's history of this issue in Brazil and analysis its proposals and the reaction to it.
3º National Human Rights Program; human rights; re-democratization; 1988 Constitution