Author profile: Marianna Leite

Dr Marianna Leite is an independent researcher and works in the area of International Human Rights Law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has a Ph.D. in Development Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, which employed a Foucauldian discourse analysis to explore the significant shifts in maternal mortality reduction policies over the past decades in Brazil. This research was the extension of work she conducted as a visiting scholar at the International Gender Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.

The Outbreak of the Zika Virus and Reproductive Rights in Latin America

Marianna Leite • Feb 24 2016 • Articles

There has been a range of reactions to the Zika outbreak, the most alarming being the impairment of women’s reproductive rights and access to safe abortion services.

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