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36/ Lutz is honored in the names of two species of Brazilian lizards, Liolaemus lutzae and Phyllopezus lutzae, as well as four species of frogs, Pristimantis lutzae, Dendropsophus berthalutzae, Megaelosia lutzae, and Scinax berthae.

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35/ In 1958, she described what is now known as Lutz's rapids frog (Paratelmatobius lutzii Lutz and Carvalho, 1958), which is named in honor of her father.

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34/ Throughout her lifetime, Lutz would publish numerous scientific studies and publications, most notably "Observations on the life history of the Brazilian Frog" (1943), "A notable frog chorus in Brazil" (1946), and "New frogs from Itatiaia mountain" (1952).

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33/ After returning to Brazil in 1918, Lutz dedicated herself to the study of amphibians, especially poison dart frogs and frogs of the family Hylidae. In 1919, she was hired by the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. She later became a naturalist at the Section of Botany.

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32/ Although she was a little over seventy at this stage of her life, Lutz continued to attend conferences and push for the expansion of women's rights, including the World Conference on Women, 1975, in Mexico City.

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31/ Additionally, at the 15th annual meeting of the Inter-American Commission of Women held in 1970, she proposed to hold a seminar dedicated to addressing the specific problems faced by indigenous women.

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30/ In 1964, Lutz headed the Brazilian delegation at the 14th Inter-American Commission in Montevideo.

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29/ She is credited with being the most prominent and tenacious advocate for the inclusion of women's rights in the UN Charter, and without her work the United Nations would likely not have a mandate to protect women's rights.

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28/ She further proposed the UN create a special commission whose purpose it would be to analyze the "legal status of women" around the world in order to better understand the inequalities they faced and be better prepared to combat them.

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27/ " ...faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small".

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26/ The first draft did not mention the word "women", and against the wishes of US delegate Virginia Gildersleeve and some British female advisors, Lutz and other women from Latin America insisted in the final clause read:

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25/ During the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, Lutz, along with Minerva Bernardino, fought for the inclusion of the word "women" in the preamble to the United Nations Charter.

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24/ She also proposed an Equals Rights Treaty and pushed the Inter-American Commission of Women to refocus and recommit to analyzing working conditions of women in the Americas.

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23/ Lutz came prepared to the 1933 Inter-American Conference of Montevideo with a study of the legal status of women in the Americas, and advocated that the nationality of married women should not be contingent on that of their husbands.

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22/ At the 1922 Pan-American Conference of Women, Lutz advocated for the equality of rights and opportunity of women, with a special focus on political inclusion.

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21/ She was one of the four women to sign the United Nations Charter at the Inter-American Conference of Women held in San Francisco in 1945. She also served as vice president of the Inter-American Commission of Women from 1953 to 1959.

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20/ Lutz, however, was unable to push forward her measures after Getúlio Vargas was reinstated as dictator in 1937, which led to a suspension of parliament, and the Statute project. Lutz nonetheless continued her diplomatic career.

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19/ The first initiative that Lutz presented while in Congress was the creation of the "Statute of Women", a committee to analyze every Brazilian law and statute to ensure none violated the rights of women.

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18/ In 1935, Lutz decided to run for a seat in the National Congress of Brazil and came in second behind Cándido Pessoa. She replaced him when he died a year later, making Lutz one of the few Brazilian Congresswomen of the era.

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17/ Most notable of these proposals was her call for the Inter-American Commission of Women to focus on issues of gender equality in the workplace.

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16/ In 1933, after obtaining her law degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law, Lutz introduced several proposals for gender equity at the Inter-American Conference of Montevideo, Uruguay.

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15/ Lutz's advocacy for the rights of women did not end with the right to vote, and she continued to play a prominent role in feminist campaigns.

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14/ Lutz's involvement in the fight for women's suffrage made her the leading Brazilian figure of women's rights until the end of 1931, when Brazilian women finally gained the right to vote.

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13/ She served as a delegate to the Pan-American Conference of Women in Baltimore, Maryland in 1922, and would continue to attend women's rights conferences in the years to follow. In 1925, she was elected president of the Inter-American Union of Women.

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