Debora Diniz

Debora Diniz is one of the founders of Anis: Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender, one of the key feminist groups dedicated to bioethics in Latin America. An anthropologist by training, she is now a professor of bioethics at the University of Brasilia. As a documentarian, her films received more than 50 prizes and one of the documentaries was the first film to be exhibited at a Supreme Court public hearing on abortion. She has a strong advocacy experience in working with the Brazilian Supreme Court on hard cases, such as gay marriage, abortion and stem cell research. Her research interests are reproductive and sexual rights, human rights, disability and research ethics. She has written many academic books and papers on bioethics, feminism and human rights in several languages. She now lives in Brasília, Brazil.