Public engagement

I take part in public debate on crime, security, climate, and democracy, through op-eds, the media, and public hearings.

Talks & public hearings

  1. Public hearing on misleading environmental advertising (greenwashing). Chamber of Deputies, Committee on Participatory Legislation, 2025.
  2. Climate justice and health in the urban periphery. Planalto Palace, 2025.
  3. Climate change and its impact on labour relations. Superior Labour Court (TST), with ILO Brazil and the Labour Prosecutor’s Office, 2025.
  4. Illegalisms and the making of the city: armed groups, political violence, and the vote. Observatório de Favelas and the Rio de Janeiro Public Defender’s Office, 2025.
  5. Challenges of military organizational culture in the face of harassment and sexual abuse. Webinar, RESDAL, 2025.

Interviews & media

  1. Lins, I. N. (2025). Interview on Brazil’s environmental licensing bill (the “devastation bill”). Sveriges Radio (Ekot).
  2. Lins, I. N. (2023). On how massacres undermined Justice Minister Dino’s security plan. Correio da Manhã. correiodamanha.com.br
  3. Lins, I. N. (2022). On why the North and Northeast are the last regions to begin counting votes. Correio Braziliense. correiobraziliense.com.br
  4. Lins, I. N. (2022). On rising political tension before the election after the killing of a Workers’ Party supporter. Correio Braziliense. correiobraziliense.com.br
  5. Lins, I. N., & Paz, H. (2020). Round table on violence against Black and peripheral activists and political leaders. Radio/TV.

Op-eds

  1. Lins, I. N. (2026). Lowering the age of criminal responsibility will build a new army for the PCC. CartaCapital. cartacapital.com.br
  2. Lins, I. N., & Giannini, R. (2022). Fear will not defeat democracy. Correio Braziliense.
  3. Lins, I. N. (2021). In Brazil, Black lives do not matter: discourse on police violence in the Chamber of Deputies. Boletim Lua Nova.
  4. Lins, I. N. (2019). Substitute deputies: a representative elected after the election? Politize!