Brazil Unfiltered

Cecília MacDowell Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (UC Berkeley) and a Master in Law (University of São Paulo). Her research interests center on laws, policies, and feminist mobilizations to combat violence against women, as well as transnational legal mobilization of human rights. She is the author of Women’s Police Stations: Gender, Violence, and Justice in São Paulo, Brazil (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and has edited four books. She has published several book chapters and articles about gender-based and intersectional violence, the State, justice, human rights, and transnational legal mobilization in Brazil and in the inter-American system of human rights. She has also conducted research and published a book on transnational legal mobilization in Portugal and the European Court of Human Rights.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important m