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Debora Diniz

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Debora Diniz interviewed on The Laura Flanders Show in 2019

Debora Diniz Rodrigues (known as Debora Diniz), is an anthropologist and law professor at the University of Brasília, and a co-founder and researcher at Anis: Institute for Bioethics. She is also a researcher, writer and documentary filmmaker. Her research projects focus on bioethics, feminism, human rights and health. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Leeds, the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, among other institutions.[1][2][3]

By 2016, Diniz had received about 90 awards, including scientific and academic awards for her films at festivals, including the Fred L. Soper Award for Excellence in Public Health Literature, the Pan American Health Organization, in 2012, for the publication of her National Abortion Survey.[4] In 2020 she was honored with the Dan David Prize.[5]

Her research found that one in five Brazilian women had an abortion by age 40.[6]

In 2017 she published Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat (Zed Books).[7][8][9][10]

In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Currículo do Sistema de Currículos Lattes (Debora Diniz)". Archived from the original on 2009-10-06. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  2. ^ "Entrevista". Archived from the original on 2017-01-12. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  3. ^ "Debora Diniz". Archived from the original on 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  4. ^ "Debora Diniz ganha prêmio de Direitos Humanos da Universidade de São Paulo". Archived from the original on 2012-11-28.
  5. ^ Dan David Prize 2020
  6. ^ "The Zika Virus and Brazilian Women's Right to Choose". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2017-10-20. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  7. ^ Krauss, Amy (2018). "Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat by Debora Diniz (review)". Luso-Brazilian Review. 55 (2): E13–E15. doi:10.3368/lbr.55.2.E13. ISSN 1548-9957. S2CID 149936281.
  8. ^ Stolow, Jeni; Castro, Arachu (December 2018). "Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 32 (4). Society for Medical Anthropology. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  9. ^ McLemee, Scott (September 13, 2017). "Review of Debora Diniz's 'Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat'". Inside Higher Ed. Archived from the original on 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  10. ^ Howells, Michaela (2018). "Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat Debora Diniz Zed Publishing. 192 pp, $16.50 (Paperback), $15.68 ebook (kindle)". American Journal of Human Biology. 30 (2): e23081. doi:10.1002/ajhb.23081. ISSN 1520-6300.
  11. ^ "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". Specter Journal. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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