Tamara Amoroso Gonçalves

Tamara Amoroso Gonçalves is a PhD student at the Law and Society Program at the University of Victoria and a Fellow at the Centre for Global Studies. She is also a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal (Concordia University).

Tamara’s research focuses on the disputes around the Brazilian consumer law which defines discriminatory advertising as ilegal, focusing specially on the gender dimension of those disputes.  

Tamara has been part of the feminist movement in Brazil for more than 12 years, through national and international networks , such as CLADEM/Brazil (Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights) and Rede Mulher e Mídia (Women and the Media Network). She also worked for the Brazilian Federal Government with consumer national public policies and with non-governmental organizations engaged with Human Rights in general and Children’s Rights in particular.

She has published a book in Brazil in which she analyses cases about women’s rights violations presented to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. She also has other relevant publications such as book chapters and articles in journals; exploring themes related to children’s and women’s rights as human rights, in particular, advertising to children and its effects; women’s and girl’s trafficking for sexual exploitation; violence against women and sexual and reproductive rights. Some of her published works can also be accessed here:https://independent.academia.edu/TamaraGon%C3%A7alves