This is an international relations dissertation. Its objective is to assess the extent to which the Brazilian foreign policy for human rights after the countrys redemocratization is in accordance with the its diplomatic tradition of respect to international law. Before, however, a historical-juridical description of the functioning of the International and Inter-American regimes is undertaken as a means to specify the obligations by which the States- parties of those systems of protection are bound to. As far as the theoretical framework is concerned, the starting point will be that of the English School, once it highlights respect to international norms as a fundamental aspect of world politics. Here the main purpose is to demonstrate how the discourse and practice of foreign policy towards human rights are being gradually inserted into a certain invented tradition of the Brazilian diplomacy.