Research

Current research interests

Violência contra as mulheres, movimentos de mulheres e Estado

Memória política e justiça no Brasil

Mobilização jurídica (trans)nacional e construção dos direitos humanos

Discursos sobre Violência contra Mulheres

Teorias feministas da interseccionalidade

Direitos humanos

Racismo e lutas indígenas

Research Projects

2022-10-10 - 2024-10-10 - "Women's Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Intersectionality: Transnational Legal Activism in Brazil and the Inter-American System", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by University of San Francisco.

2022-01-12 - 2023-05-30 - "From alliance to antagonism: National women's rights politics and local impacts on legal mobilization in Lula/Dilma's and Bolsonaro's Brazil", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by University of San Francisco.
    Project Partnership:
              - Luanna Tomaz de Souza

2016-06-01 - 2019-05-31 - "COMBAT - O combate ao racismo em Portugal: uma análise de políticas públicas e legislação antidiscriminação", coordinated by Silvia Rodríguez Maeso, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - PTDC/IVC-SOC/1209/2014 - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016806.

2012-04 - 2014-03 - "Human Trafficking for the Purpose of Labor Exploitation: Challenges to Law and Rights", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).

2012-04 - 2014-03 - "Intimacy and Disability: Disabled Women´s Sexual and Reproductive Citizenship in Portugal", coordinated by Ana Cristina Santos, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).

2012 - 2014 - "From the Women's Police Stations to the Maria da Penha Law: Toward a Situated Intersectional Approach", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Faculty Development Fund, University of San Francisco.

2011 - 2016 - "ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences", coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, sponsored by European Research Center.

2010-07 - 2011-07 - "Whose 'women's human rights'? Transnational legal mobilization and feminism in Brazil", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Faculty Development Fund, University of San Francisco.

2009-09-01 - 2011-12-31 - "Trajectórias de Esperança: itinerários institucionais de mulheres em situação de violência doméstica", coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, sponsored by FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

2007-10 - 2009-09 - "Access to Justice for Women Survivors of Violence: A Comparative Study of Women's Police Stations in Latin America", coordinated by Nadine Jubb, sponsored by International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

2007-10 - 2009-09 - "Reconstructing Human Rights through Transnational Legal Mobilization? Portugal and the European Court of Human Rights", coordinated by Cecília MacDowell Santos, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).

2005 - 2008 - "Transnantional Legal Activism: Brazilian NGOs and the Inter-American System of Human Rights", coordinated by Cecília MacDowell Santos, sponsored by Faculty Development Research Fund da University of San Francisco.

2005 - 2007 - "Declassifying the Dictatorship: Memory and Justice in Brazil", coordinated by Cecília MacDowell Santos, sponsored by USF Jesuit Foundation.

2002 - 2004 - "Women´s Police Stations in Brazil", coordinated by Cecília MacDowell Santos, sponsored by Faculty Development Fund da University of San Francisco.

Networks

Inter-American Human Rights Network
    Net Partnership:
              - Institute of the Americas, University College London

Rede de Estudos Avançados em Direitos Humanos: diferenças culturais e gramáticas do reconhecimento, Instituto Latino-Americano de Estudos Avançados, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
    Net Partnership:
              - Instituto Latino-Americano de Estudos Avançados, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul