The winners of the third edition of the Academic Recognition Award in Human Rights were announced by Unicamp and the Vladimir Herzog Institute in this Tuesday (2/5). 15 studies were included in five areas of knowledge. The award is aimed at educational institutions in São Paulo and aims to recognize undergraduate, master's and doctoral work that contributes to the protection and promotion of the dignity of life and all forms of existence. This edition's honorees were Adriana Dias, Silvio Almeida, Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.
Access the result on the DeDH page.
The evaluation committee was made up of 43 members from educational institutions from all regions of the country. The five areas covered by the award are: exact sciences, engineering and technology; biological and health sciences; human, social and economic sciences; arts, communication and language and education. The awards ceremony takes place on May 22nd.
“Compared to last year, we had an increase in the number of exact and technological research, which shows that the award is expanding. Furthermore, we incorporated research institutes and centers, which brought greater diversity”, assesses the coordinator of the Evaluation Committee and advisor to the Dean of Research at Unicamp, Angela Cristina Lucas.
Only works published throughout 2022 were analyzed. The themes covered are connected to current issues, such as poverty, gender and racial inequalities, accessibility, migration, violence and sustainability.
For Angela Lucas, the award fulfills the role of encouraging the production of research that is committed to human dignity and other forms of life. “Awarding research on human rights is a way of encouraging work in the area and at the same time demystifying the fact that it would only be a social science topic. There is research that contributes to human rights in all areas.”
The honorary awards, which honor prominent names in the promotion of human rights, were granted to personalities involved in combating racism, defending indigenous peoples and the environment and investigating neo-Nazi groups.
Check the list of winners:
Exact sciences, engineering and technology
Undergraduate Research: Investigation of sustainability actions in federal public universities in the areas of water, energy and waste – Iara Ivana Pereira – Center for Exact Sciences and Technology (Campus São Carlos) of the Federal University of São Carlos
Master's Research: Self-supervised learning for scene recognition in images of child sexual abuse – Pedro Henrique Vaz Valois – Institute of Computing at the State University of Campinas
Doctoral Research: Foodomics for sustainable agriculture: differentiating the volatile profile of mint and carioca beans grown by conventional, organic and permaculture agricultural systems, using hs-spme/gc-ms and chemometrics – Luan Felipe Campos Oliveira – University Chemistry Institute State of Campinas
Biological and health sciences
Undergraduate Research: Construction and validation of a booklet in Libras on sexual and reproductive health for deaf women – Juliana Maria Teobaldo Martins – Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”
Master's Research: Pregnancy and covid-19: does skin color matter? An analysis of the rebraco study – Amanda Dantas Silva – Faculty of Medical Sciences at the State University of Campinas
Doctoral Research: Risk factors for femicides in the city of Campinas: literature review, spatial case-control study and qualitative analysis – Monica Caicedo Roa – Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University of Campinas
Human, social and economic sciences
Undergraduate Research: A woman's place: experience and project of the Laudelina de Campos Melo house – Helena Sá Barretto Prado Garcia – Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo
Master's Research: Production of urban space and public community facilities for education, health and social assistance: a study of the urban dynamics of Limeira/SP – Noan Sallati – Faculty of Applied Sciences of the State University of Campinas
Doctoral Research: Who bleeds in the corpse factory? The massacres in São Paulo and RMSP and the Torcida massacre organized in pavilion nine – Camila de Lima Vedovello – Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the State University of Campinas
Arts, communication and language
Undergraduate Research: Folha de S. Paulo and the 50th anniversary of the military coup: the journalistic memory of women activists – Caroline Cavalleiro Campos – Faculty of Architecture, Arts, Communication and Design (Bauru Campus) of São Paulo State University “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”
Master's Research: Weaving voices and BOs: the resemiotization of semiotic violence against women in online social networks – Camila Rebecca Busnardo – Institute of Language Studies at the State University of Campinas
Doctoral Research: Naming the human: migration as a discursive event – Giulia Mendes Gambassi – Institute of Language Studies at the State University of Campinas
Education
Undergraduate Research: Inclusive teaching of the topic of atomic models through Braille comic books and manipulative materials – João Pedro Ponciano – Faculty of Sciences (Campus Bauru) of the Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”
Master's Research: Teaching Afro-Brazilian history and culture: from the agenda of the black movement to law 10.639 – Adriano Bueno da Silva – Faculty of Education at the State University of Campinas
Doctoral Research: Dreams of adolescents at a social disadvantage: life, school and mathematical education – Daniela Alves Soares – Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (Campus of Rio Claro) of the Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”
Honorary Awards
Adriana Dias, in posthumous tribute, for his important research and tireless fight against extremism and for the defense of inclusion and diversity.
Adriana Abreu Magalhães Dias graduated in Social Sciences at Unicamp and completed her master's and doctorate in Anthropology also at Unicamp. She gained recognition in the country for her research into neo-Nazism. Dias discovered the existence of at least 334 Nazi cells in Brazil, organized in a virtual environment. She also found a letter from the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, addressed to Nazi groups, in which he stated: “You are the reason my mandate exists.” The anthropologist had osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare genetic disease, and was an activist for the rights of people with disabilities and rare diseases. She founded the Baresi Institute, national forum bringing together people with rare diseases, disabilities and other minority groups. Dias passed away in January 2023. Throughout his career, he also coordinated the “Disability and Accessibility” Committee of the Brazilian Anthropology Association, was part of the American Anthropological Association and the National Front of Women with Disabilities. In addition, he was a member of the Vida e Justiça Association to Support Victims of Covid-19, participated in hearings of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry of the Chamber of Campinas that investigated Nazi-fascist crimes and participated in the transition team of the third government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , in 2022.
Bruno da Cunha Araújo Pereira and Dominic Mark Phillips, murdered in Vale do Javari in 2022, in posthumous tribute. Bruno, for his fight in favor of isolated indigenous people and the preservation of the environment. Dom Philips, English journalist, for his leadership in investigations into deforestation in Brazil.
Bruno da Cunha Araújo Pereira was an indigenist and worked with indigenous peoples in the Amazon, in the Vale do Javari region. He had a career at the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (formerly the National Indian Foundation) and was a specialist in isolated peoples. At Funai, he became the general coordinator of Isolated and Newly Contacted Indians in 2018. The following year, however, after coordinating a mega-operation to combat mining, he was dismissed by the Bolsonaro government and began working with the Union of Peoples Indigenous people of the Javari Valley (Univaja). Along with the organization, he worked to guard the indigenous territory. The indigenist was murdered in June 2022, as was Dom Phillips.
Dominic Mark Phillips, known as Dom Phillips, was a journalist and worked for newspapers such as The Washington Post, The New York Times e Financial Times. He lived in Israel, Greece and Denmark and moved to Brazil in 2007. At the time of the murder, she was working on a book about sustainable development in the Amazon. In her career, she also contributed to an investigation of the The Guardian about cattle farms and deforestation in Brazil. In Salvador, the journalist's last city of residence, Dom also taught English classes at a popular course. At the beginning of his journalistic career, he covered topics related to music. In Brazil, he reported on the preparations for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. After that, he essentially started covering issues linked to the environmental crisis and its impacts on indigenous and traditional populations.
Silvio Almeida, honored for his research, which identifies the bases of racism structural, shedding light on anti-racist public policies, and for the rescue of important black historical figures, such as Luiz Gama.
Silvio Luiz de Almeida, current Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship in the Lula government, is a lawyer, philosopher and professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He graduated in Law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (USP). He completed a master's degree in Political and Economic Law at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and received a doctorate in Philosophy and General Theory of Law from USP. He was a visiting professor at Duke University (2020) and Columbia (2022). One of his most notable works was structural racism, in which he addresses the constitution of racism in the social structure. He presides over the Luis Gama Institute, an organization that develops actions to combat prejudice and defend the rights of black people and minorities. He also worked in the Frente Pró-Cotas and was one of those responsible for formulating affirmative action policies in the state of São Paulo.
