Eunice biography

Brazilian lawyer and human rights activist

Maria Lucrécia Eunice Facciolla Paiva (November 7, 1929 – December 13, 2018) was a Brazilian lawyer and activist of the anti-military dictatorship movement in Brazil.^[3][4][5] After losing her husband, the former federal deputyRubens Paiva, to the Military Dictatorship then in force and which denied her any answers regarding his whereabouts, Eunice, also in the express need to ensure the proper maintenance of herself and her children, re-entered and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Mackensie Presbyterian University and advocated for the human rights of victims of political repression and their families, as well as for indigenous rights.^[6][7][8]

Biography

Eunice Paiva spent her childhood in the neighborhood of Brás, in the city of São Paulo, where she lived in a community of Italians who came to Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century, and later m