Claudia Andujar

Grand Cross – Ordem do Mérito Cultural 2008 Claudia Andujar (born 1931)[1] is a Swiss-born Brazilian photographer and activist.

She co-founded the Comissão Pró-Yanomami (CCPY), an advocacy organization that supports the rights of the Yanomami people.

[9] There she met a Spanish refugee, Julio Andujar, whom she married in 1949 and whose last name she still maintains because she wanted "to forget everything that happened" and "start anew.

When a highway project through their territory led to a disastrous outbreak of measles, she suspended her photographic work to help bring medical aid to them.

[8] During the 1980s, an influx of illegal gold miners into this region led to more health problems, including an outbreak of malaria and mercury poisoning.