Sandro Gorski

Experience

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  Benites, Ribas, Grabowski & Gorski Law Firm

  Apr 2011 - Mar 2012

  Co-Founder and Lawyer

  • Legal representation of clients in litigation before Brazilians courts.• Legal advice and dispute resolution.• Advocacy before the Congress and the Bar Association.• Office management.The most challenging experience as a lawyer was the representation of a transsexual client who wished to change her legal name and sex assignment at her birth certificate. The Brazilian domestic law at the time did not recognize transsexuality. However, basing the arguments in the international human rights standards, human dignity and substantive hermeneutic, the Brazilian Lower Court of Curitiba, Paraná, ruled accepting the petition filed. Show less

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  Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Paraná

  May 2012 - now

  Law Clerk

  In charge of drafting decisions on the admissibility of criminal challenges to the Brazilian Federal Court and the Supreme Court.

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  United Nations

  Feb 2018 - May 2018

  Subcommittee on Accreditation Assistant at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

  • Monitoring Latin-American NHRIs and human rights issues.• Drafting of reports and letters concerning the accreditation procedure, in English and Spanish.• Writing summaries of NHRIs under review by the Sub-Committee on Accreditation.• Presentation of summaries and letters before the members of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation.• Conduction of interviews with NHRIs in Spanish and its translation into English.

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  Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme (CNCDH)

  Sept 2018 - Dec 2018

  French Delegate for the United Nations Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

  • Support to the General Secretary, including in her role as Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation of GANHRI.• Participation in the decision-making process for the accreditation of NHRIs.• Monitoring of the human rights situation in countries whose institutions have been reviewed by the Sub-Committee on Accreditation.• Participation in auditions of several experts and Human Rights Defenders from different parts of the world, as well as in events organized by the Commission.• Translations of documents into Spanish. Show less

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  ABDConst - Academia Brasileira de Direito Constitucional

  May 2019 - May 2019

  Visiting Professor