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Jan 01, 0001 Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil 2023 years old
Brazilian lawyer
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About Joênia Wapixana
- Joênia Wapixana (officially Joênia Batista de Carvalho; born 1974) is the first indigenous lawyer in Brazil and a member of the Wapixana tribe of northern Brazil.
- After taking a land dispute to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Wapixana became the first indigenous lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court of Brazil.
- She is the current president of the National Commission for the Defense of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She was elected federal deputy for the state of Roraima, from the party list of the Sustainability Network (REDE), in the 2018 general election.
- Batista de Carvalho is the first indigenous woman elected to the Chamber of Deputies and the second indigenous federal deputy since the election of Mário Juruna in 1982.
