Abstract

LEITE, Isabel Costa. The CPLP, Portugal and the Equatorial Guinea: a crossroad in the Human Rights era. População e Sociedade [online]. 2020, n.34, pp.62-70.  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 0873-1861.

The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) shares the promotion of democracy and good governance as well as the protection of human rights values among its member states. This mission has been questioned after the membership of Equatorial Guinea, due to its history of dictatorship and persistent violation of the population’s most basic human rights. At the same time, one of the founding objectives is to promote the common Portuguese language, a factor that is absent in the linguistic and cultural relations between the two parties. Rather than mutual political interests, economic ones seem to be the determinant factor of this participation in the CPLP. In this context, the role of Portugal is shown to be that of a mobilizing agent for a multilateral political relation on which the future of the CPLP, with the extension of its area to Equatorial Guinea, will depend, in all its various challenges and new strategies to guarantee human rights.

Keywords : CPLP; Portugal; Equatorial Guinea; fundamental values; human rights..

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