
Selected Publications
Published or In press
Brazil’s Yanomami health disaster: addressing the public health emergency requires advancing criminal accountability
Frontiers in Public Health (April 2023)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1166167/full

Oil giant, climate savior, or somewhere in between? Human rights and the Norwegian climate paradox
Int. J. of Public Law and Policy (Online first, 2023)
https://doi.org/10.1504/ijplap.2023.10054627

Latin American perspectives on Indigenous social work: in search of mind, body, and soul
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (2023)
SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801221140460

Health care access by transgender persons in South Africa: gender-based discrimination, human rights violations, and the role of the African human rights system

Critical Perspectives on Social Work and Social Policy Practice with Vulnerable Migrants in an Era of Emergencies

Challenges in making school social work a reality in Brazilian schools

The management (or lack thereof) of COVID-19 in Brazil: implications for human rights and public health
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare (2020-2021)
Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhrh-09-2020-0085

Book Review: Mary Mee-Yin Yuen, Solidarity and Reciprocity with Migrants in Asia: Catholic and Confucian Ethics in Dialogue

Gender-Awareness amongst Brazilian Children Enrolled in Primary Education: Implications for Women’s Rights & Equality
Géneros: Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies (2020)
Hipatia Press. https://doi.org/10.17583/generos.2020.4865

The Role of Rights-Based Social Work in Contemporary Latin American Diasporas: the Case of Venezuelan Migrant Children
Journal of Human Rights and Social Work (2019)
Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-019-00104-1

Indigenous Rights, Necropolitics and the 'Daily Genocides' of Brazil’s Native and Traditional Peoples
In "Língua(gens), Literaturas, Culturas, Identidades e Direitos Indígenas no Brasil" [Language, Literature, Culture, Identities, and Indigenous Rights in Brazil] (2021)
BAGAI Editora. http://dx.doi.org/10.37008/978-65-89499-57-2.23.04.21

Dream the impossible dream? An ecosocialist account of the human right to a healthy environment
Direito Ambiental & Sociedade [Environmental Law & Society] (2020)


In Tech We Trust? Some General Remarks on
Law in the Technological Era from a Third World Perspective
Journal Juridical Opinion / Revista Opinião Jurídica (2019)

Creating bridges between international relations theory and international human rights law: constructivism and the role of Brazil in the Inter-American system of human rights
Brazilian Journal of International Law / Revista de Direito Internacional (2018)

Submitted or under review
Under preparation / In Progress
International and Comparative Social Work Research in Latin America: Tapping into the Untapped Potentials
Hunger and Climate (In)Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for the Social Work Profession in an Era of Intersecting Emergencies
Climate Change and Green Social Work: An Ecosocialist Critique
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