Advocacy and rights
National Federation of APAEs
Federação Nacional das APAEs (APAE Brasil)
Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Brasília-based umbrella federation of more than 2,000 local APAE associations serving people with intellectual and multiple disabilities across Brazil, operating for over 60 years and running a national self-advocates programme (Encontro Nacional de Autodefensores).
- Focus
- Intellectual disability, Down syndrome
- Leadership
- Family- or professional-led
- Where
- In person and online
- Languages
- Portuguese
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Verified 2026-09-09 from apaebrasil.org.br. Added 2026-09-09 by the editorial team.
Note: Historically family- and professional-led, but its self-advocacy programme has produced autodefensores who represent users on bodies such as the National Social Assistance Council. Several state federations (FEAPAES) are catalogued separately in this file.
Suggest a correction-15.800, -47.870