Nilza de Freitas

My aim is to analyze the right to workers' health as a fundamental right, since in Brazil, after the pandemic, we observed an exponential increase in workers being removed from their workplace due to health problems involving mental issues. I also intend to analyze how this impact on mental health affects Black people within the historical and slaveholding context that still reflects in Brazil today. Finally, I seek to understand the main problems and to identify possible paths and which public policies may be applied.

2025
Visiting Research Student at the University of Bonn

• 2025. De Freitas, Nilza M. S. (co-author). "Mediation and Conciliation as Mechanisms of Social Pacification and Efficiency in the Labor Judiciary." In Labor Law and Procedure, edited by Diogo Antonio Pereira Miranda, Felipe Miguel Mendonça Ferreira, and Paula Jaeger da Silva, 412–424. Porto Alegre: HS Editora.
• 2025. De Freitas, Nilza M. S. "Workplace Discrimination: An Analysis from the Perspective of Race and Its Social Impacts." In Quilombismo (e-book): The Struggle for Justice, 37–47. Porto Alegre, RS: Núcleo de Pesquisa Antirracismo, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. PDF.
• 2024. De Freitas, Nilza M. S. (co-author). "Labor Market: The Challenges Faced by Black Women Lawyers from the Intersectional Perspective of Gender, Race, and Social Class." In Essays on Law and Anti-Racism: Contemporary Advocacy and Race Relations, edited by Letícia Marques Padilha, Fábio dos Santos Gonçalves, and Alexandre Torres Petry, 50–64.   Porto Alegre: OAB/RS. ISBN: 978-65-88371-39-8.