Maria Paula Russo Riva

Experience

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  Costa, Waisberg e Tavares Paes Advogados Associados

  Mar 2012 - Jan 2013

  Legal Intern

  - Drafting petitions; - Researching case law and legal strategies for civil, tax and corporate cases; - Assistance in due diligence operations and mergers and acquisitions.

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  Engholm Cardoso & Sica Advogados Associados

  Jan 2013 - Mar 2015

  Legal Intern

  - Drafting petitions on administrative law issues;- Conducting legal and case law research; - Monitoring legal developments in Administrative Law, such as the Brazilian Anti-Corruption Law.

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  UNODC

  Jan 2017 - Jul 2017

  Research Internship

  Conducting legal and jurisprudential research in Latin American and Caribbean countries on human trafficking and smuggling.

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  Queiroz Maluf Reis Sociedade de Advogados

  Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

  Junior Lawyer

  - Responsibility for more than 60 lawsuits;- Drafting petitions and administrative defenses for cases involving the National Transport Agency; - Liaising with clients to provide legal assistance.

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  Unibes

  Jan 2018 - Jun 2019

  Legal Analyst

  - Analysing and drafting external and internal contracts; - Assisting in developing internal compliance and governance policies; - Filing tax certification and accountability requirements; - Administering labor and administrative lawsuits;- Carrying out organizational and administrative tasks.

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  ACT Promoção da Saúde

  Jul 2019 - Jan 2022

  Legal and Advocacy Analyst

  - Proposing, reviewing and implementing advocacy strategies;- Assisting in organising events;- Producing and editing communication pieces, such as newsletters and press releases;- Drafting advocacy materials for the Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches;- Contacting and relationships with government actors, civil society organizations and coalitions;- Preparing technical reports for accountability, legislative proposals, technical notes and articles on public health policies;- Preparing and submitting amicus curiae briefs for more than 60 strategic litigation cases;- Representing the organisation before national and international events, presenting workshops and seminars;- Monitoring the tobacco and food industry's interference with public health promotion policies. Exibir menos

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  European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

  Jan 2022 - Mar 2023

  Research and Data Trainee

  - Research assistance on Immigrants and Descendants of Immigrants survey with backcoding, verification and data analysis (SPSS); - Research and reporting on legal, jurisprudential and public policy developments protecting LGBTIQAP+ rights in the European Union and its Member States; - Assistance in drafting chapters for the reports "Being Black in the EU II" and "Fundamental Rights Report 2023";- Assistance in drafting questions for the survey on LGBTIQAP+ rights in the European Union(- Extensive research on socio-economic status as a legally protected characteristic from discrimination in national legislation, case law, international bodies, reports from international organizations and scientific articles. Exibir menos

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  Technische Universität München

  Mar 2022 - now

  Research Consultant and regional expert

  Four-year project: "Understanding, detecting and mitigating online misogyny against politically active women").- Conducting extensive literature review;- Compiling research data on topics like online hate, online misogyny, (cyber) harassment and discrimination against women candidates and incumbent politicians, LGBTIQAP+, black, indigenous and quilombola women;- Researching legal and public policy development on the subject of gender-based political violence;- Assisting in designing a questionnaire on online misogyny, to be distributed to politically active women in Brazil, India and Germany;- Compiling of a comprehensive database of more than 10,000 women who ran for the 2022 elections in Brazil;- Disseminating the survey questionnaire;- Conducting interviews with politically active women from Brazil;- Writing scientific articles for the Brazilian Journal of Electoral Studies and the journal Political Violence at a Glance, and co-authoring a systematic literature review. Exibir menos

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  #MeRepresenta

  Jan 2023 - now

  Research Coordinator

  - Mapping partner organizations developing projects on violence against women in politics;- Contacting and engaging with public policy makers;- Assisting with project elaboration;- Identifying fundraising opportunities and submitting projects to calls for proposals;- Providing recommendations on significant developments and emerging opportunities.

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  Penal Reform International

  Jan 2023 - Jan 2023

  Translator

  Translating infographics and social media cards from English to Portuguese on recent developments and challenges in the criminal justice system, prison policy and practices.

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  Avante Social

  Jun 2023 - Jan 2023

  Project Manager Consultant

  - Organising and preparing lectures and material for the "Citizenship in Early Childhood" project, aimed at providing project management tools for the institutional strengthening of the members of the Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents.

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  Instituto Alziras

  Jun 2023 - Jan 2024

  Research Consultant

  Project to map cases of gender-based political violence prosecuted in the Electoral Court and the Justice System.- Outlining the methodological structure for data collection and analysis, including an intersectional perspective;- Mapping and compiling legislation on gender-based political violence;- Drafting and sending more than 100 requests to access public information from the justice system and the electoral system;- Collecting, processing, reviewing and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data of complaints about gender-based political violence;- Analysing representations proposed by the Public Prosecutor’s Working Group on complaints about gender-based political violence, proposing and creating indicators for analysis;- Systematising the data and preparing visual presentations;- Structuring, writing and editing research reports. Exibir menos

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  Coalizão Direitos na Rede

  Jun 2023 - Jan 2024

  - Summarising the main positions issued by the Coalition while the bill project 2630 was being processed;- Elaborating and proposing a data collection methodology;- Collecting and analysing data from international organizations, civil society organizations and national legislation on regulatory policies on platform regulation in 70 countries;- Creating an executive summary for better communication and dissemination of the main results;- Preparing a report with international references with points of intersection with CDR's positions;- Presenting the report’s result in an event at the House of Deputies;- Answer interviews to the media with the report’s highlights. Exibir menos

  • Research Consultant - GT RegPlat

    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024

  • Advocacy Consultant - GT IA

    Jun 2023 - Jan 2023
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  VoteLGBT

  Jan 2024 - now

  Research Consultant

  18-month project on how AI can contribute to the identification and accountability of cases, as well as to the formulation of public policies to combat LGBTphobic political violence in Brazil.- Designing the methodology and the project preparation;- Assisting with restructuring the design of the pre-candidacy questionnaire;- Desk research on online hate speech against the LGBTQI+ population;- Preparing reports for the funder.