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Creuza Oliveira

1957–

Brazil

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Creuza Maria Oliveira CavMT (born 11 May 1957) is a Brazilian trade unionist known for her advocacy for domestic workers in Brazil. After working as a domestic worker from the age of five, during the 1980s she founded the Association of Domestic Workers of Bahia, which later went on to become the Bahia Domestic Workers Union in 1992. After serving as its president for 11 years, Oliveira went on to become the president of the National Federation of Domestic Workers (Fenatrad) from 2003 until 2017, and continues to serve as its honorary president.

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