Did you know that the first International Women’s Day is 109 years old ?
For the International women’s day discover 10 women who fight for women’s rights
Simone Veil
To start the International Women’s Day we wanted to highlight a French courageous woman, Simone Veil, one of the most popular French political figures. By legalizing abortion in 1975, she was the first President of the European Parliament (1979) and the first female Minister of State (1993), but also a member of the Constitutional Council (1998) and Immortelle at the French Academy (2008).
Hilaria Supa Huaman
Peasant leader of the Cuzco region, she began her militant actions in 1991 by being one of the founders of the Peasant Federation of Women of Anta, of which she became General Secretary in 1994. It is in this statue that she participates in the Women’s Conference in Beijing in 1995.
She was one of the first « indigenous » women to revolt in 1997 against the government of Alberto Fujimori who sterilized 331,000 women by force, mostly Indian, between 1995 and 2001. She then founded the Association of Twelve d’Anta, a group of twelve peasant women who identified the victims of sterilization and lodged a complaint against the authorities. Together, they organized a march from Cuzco to Lima to obtain compensation and medical aid. These actions earned her to be excluded from the management of the Peasant Federation.
Mona Eltahaway
She became a feminist activist after she received sexual and physical assaults by Egyptian police forces while covering the 2011 Egyptian revolution. She is considered as an influential Arab woman.
Her manner of expressing herself vigorously, calling for the patriarchy to fear women and using non-police expressions to rebuff those who attack his opinions, often provokes controversy.
Sarojini Sahoo
Sarojini is considered the Simone de Beauvoir of India. Her feminism is always linked to a woman’s sexual behavior. It denies the patriarchal limits to the sexual expression of women and makes the sexual liberation of women the real motive of the feminist movement.
For her, orgasm is the body’s natural call for feminist politics: if being a woman is as good as it is, women must be worth something. Her short stories like Upanibesh, Pratibandi and Gambhiri Ghara cover a multitude of areas ranging from sexuality to philosophy, from home politics to world politics.
Aletta Jacobs
Aletta Jacobs became the first female doctor in her country in 1878 and pursued intense militant activity throughout her life. In favor of increased state intervention in the health field, it defended the right of women to control their fertility through contraception.
She was one of the leaders of the women’s suffrage movement in her country but also internationally where she was involved in the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.
She defended a pacifist position during the First World War, being notably at the initiative of the Hague conference of 1915 which gave birth to à International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace.
Jaha Dukureh
She is the founder and executive director of the Safe Hands for Girls association, which fights for the end of female genital mutilation (FGM), protects and supports victims and survivors of FGM in the United States and elsewhere. Dukureh activism led to a ban on female genital mutilation in The Gambia in late 2015. Jaha Dukureh also leads the global media campaign of the British newspaper The Guardian for the end of FGM. In April 2016, she was named to the 2016 Time 100 list.
In 2017, Accidental Picture and The Guarand produced a feature film about Jaha Dukureh’s life called Jaha’s Promise; a television version of the film was to be shown in countries where FGM is committed, thanks to the distribution of First Hand Films.
Meaza Ashenafi
As a lawyer, Meaza Ashenafi has represented thousands of women in the areas of domestic violence, sexual violence, the family, the economy and land rights.
In 2009, Meaza Ashenafi spoke about the stereotypes that women face in Ethiopia.
Meaza Ashenafi proves to be a pioneer of women’s rights in Ethiopia. She is dedicated to making the needs of the most disadvantaged known by the country’s traditional social and economic structures, to changing mentalities and laws, to creating programs to enable the emancipation of Ethiopian women. It helps women to play a better and more important role in society. It contributes to their security, gives them a voice. It teaches them to organize themselves to obtain economic power and to put pressure on the government.
Emma Goldman
Her libertarian feminism is as radical as her other commitments: she advocates contraception, gender equality and free union. She denounces the patriarchal organization of society and the institution of marriage.
It highlights the persistence of « the male property instinct », even among revolutionaries: « in his self-centeredness, man could not bear that there were other deities than him », an analysis that she develops in The Tragedy of female emancipation.
It is opposed to traditional conceptions of the family, education and gender relations. She attacks the institution of marriage, of which she says that « it is first of all an economic arrangement … [the woman] pays for it with her name, her private life, her self-esteem, her whole life ».
Aissatou Barry
The last woman we wanted to highlight in this International Women’s Day is the youngest feminist of this article, she represents the next generation of feminism. In Guinea, Aïssatou Barry, 12, fights against forced marriages. « We children today can do something that adults cannot do, » she says. I tell myself this often. I think I can do it. Whatever I want, I can do it. Nothing is impossible in the world «
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