Estéfany Rocha Monteiro

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Estéfany Rocha Monteiro is a Brazilian lawyer and researcher in transitional justice and international human rights law. She is completing the MAS in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, where her research examines guarantees of non-recurrence. She previously worked at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and CEJIL and wrote Maximum Protection for Refugees (Lumen Juris, 2025).

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A Map Is Not a Memorial: Brazil’s Former DOPS and the Legal Content of Non-Recurrence

Twenty-six years after Minas Gerais enacted a law creating a Human Rights Memorial in the building that housed the state's Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS), a political police body central to dictatorship-era repression, the site has still not been officially converted into the memorial the law envisaged. In November 2025, the Federal Public Prosecutor…

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