Dr. Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez

Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez is a postdoctoral researcher in the postgraduate program in law at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. Her research project “Human Rights, Climate Emergency, and Health: The Framework of Socioenvironmental Injustice that Perpetuates Inequality and the Fight Against Socioenvironmental Rights Violations” explores the intersections between human rights, climate change, and socioenvironmental justice.

Gabrielle holds a PhD in law from UFSC and has extensive international research experience. As part of the Brazilian government-funded Institutional Program for Internationalization (PrInt), she conducted research at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Gabrielle is a researcher at the Environmental Justice Observatory (Observatório de Justiça Ecológica, OJE) and collaborates with the Ecological Justice Clinic (Clínica de Justiça Ecológica), an extension project that engages UFSC law students and faculty in socioenvironmental legal issues. She is also a member of the Speak4Nature consortium, which focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to ecological justice. Her research areas include environmental law, human rights, animal law, and international law.

RCC Research Project: Human Rights, Climate Emergency, and Health: The Framework of Socioenvironmental Injustice that Perpetuates Inequality and the Fight Against Socioenvironmental Rights Violations

Selected Publications:

• with Leticia Albuquerque and Adriana Biller Aparicio. “El Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos y el caso de la asociación de Señoras por el Clima contra Suiza” [The European Court of Human Rights and the Case of the Ladies for Climate Association v. Switzerland]. Papeles de Relaciones Ecosociales y Cambio Global, no. 167 (2024): 43–51.
• with Leticia Albuquerque. “Por que a justiça climática precisa dos direitos dos animais?” [Why Does Climate Justice Need Animal Rights?]. Revista de Direito Ambiental, no. 113 (2024): 271–95.
• with Leticia Albuquerque and Adriana Biller Aparicio. “Emergência Climática e Direitos Humanos: Análise do Caso Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland” [Climate Emergency and Human Rights: Analysis of the Case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland]. Revista de Direitos Humanos em Perspectiva 10, no. 1 (2024): 76–100. https://doi.org/10.26668/IndexLawJournals/2526-0197/2024.v10i1.10516.
• with Tônia Andrea Horbatiuk Dutra. “Medidas de Adaptação no Fortalecimento da Justiça Climática: O Racismo e a Urgência Ecológica Característica da Catástrofe Gaúcha” [Adaptation Measures to Strengthen Climate Justice: Racism and the Ecological Urgency Characteristic of the Gaucho Catastrophe]. Cadernos do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da UFRGS 19, no. 1 (2024): 102–127.
• with Leticia Albuquerque and Roger Fabre. “Emergência Climática e Direitos Humanos: O Caso do Fundo Clima no Brasil e as Obrigações de Direito Internacional” [Climate Emergency and Human Rights: The Case of the Climate Fund in Brazil and the Obligations of International Law]. Revista de Direito Internacional 19, no. 1 (2022): 126–44. https://doi.org/10.5102/rdi.v19i1.7931.