Lorruama Ferreira Oliveira

Lorruama Ferreira Oliveira is a Brazilian lawyer from the Pataxó Nation. She holds a law degree from the Fortium Law School in Brasilia. She is currently an associate counsel at Safe-Carneiro Law Firm and has developed a strong interest in women’s rights in indigenous populations in Brazil and elsewhere. She is also an LLM candidate at the University of Brasilia (UnB) where she intends to study more specifically indigenous women’s rights and the tensions between community rights and civil/citizen’s rights. She regularly participates in the works of the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development’s FGM/C Legal Working Group.