Behind the rise of political ground breaker Joenia Wapichana
The country's first indigenous female federal deputy is now the first indigenous head of Funai. Her advisor, the journalist Mayra Wapichana...
For the first time in Brazil’s history, there is an indigenous woman in the National Congress
In 1997, Joenia Wapichana became the first indigenous woman in Brazil to obtain a law degree. Eleven years later, she was the first...
Joenia Wapichana: ‘I want to see the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol territories free of invasions’
Joenia Wapichana, the first Indigenous woman named president of Brazil's national Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, says one of her priorities at the...
Funai to seek support from the Amazon Fund: ‘things are destitute’, says Joenia Wapichana
Funai's new president, who took office on February 3, told InfoAmazonia in an interview that the [agency's budget for demarcating and...
Joenia Wapixana, winner, 2018 UN Human Rights Prize
Wapixana became the first indigenous lawyer to argue and win a case before the Supreme Court of Brazil.
President of Brazil’s National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples expects land demarcations at COP30: ‘Indigenous lands sequester carbon’
The president of the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples, Joenia Wapichana, says that the indigenous affairs agency is preparing...
Joenia Wapichana: Brazil’s first native woman voted to Congress
Wapichana became the first Indigenous woman to be elected to Congress. Ten years ago she was the first indigenous lawyer to speak in front of the Supreme...
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Lawyer and politician from the Wapichana people; first indigenous woman elected to Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, advocate for indigenous and human rights.