Friday 28 September 2012

Important Women and their rights!

3rd DBH students are writing their essays about women from their own countries and their rights! Check them out!
BY: Cristina Alomia and Janire Burgos
NADIA ELENA COMANECI
Nadia Comaneci is a romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals in 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She was the first female gymnast able to make a record with a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is one of the best known athletes in the world. She also won two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Comaneci was named as one of the athletes of the century.
She started practising gymnastics at the age of six. At that age, she was chosen to attend Bela Karoly's experimental gymnastics school.  She liked the gymnastics and she knew what she wanted to be since she was really young. She enjoyed the gymnastics and compiting and she little by little got interesed on that.
In 1969 Comaneci came 13th in the Romanian National Championships. A year later she competed in her hometown team and became the youngest gymnastic woman ever to win the Romanian Nationals. She improved and improved and finally she won all those gold medals in the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics.
 Ver adjunto BY: Iranzu Barandika and Ana Maria Cenan
COLOMBIAN WOMEN VOTE
Latin American societies have been characterized throughout history, being eminently patriarchal, which has caused political and social spaces have been reserved exclusively for men.
Colombia has been no exception, as the late nineteenth and early twentieth century women in our society still relegated to household services and care of the children.
However, the struggle of women to gain political and legal equality to the men began to succeed when in the year 1932, by Law 28, they recognized the equality in the field of civil rights.
Over the next thirteen years, the struggle of women to achieve the right to vote and access to public office was not very successful, for although remained civil rights, attempts to achieve these rights are not materializing.
In 1945 the situation was starting to change.El The Republic take care in the Constitutional role to reform the Constitution. In the reforms, the woman managed a win by being granted the rights of citizenship, thus getting the same level of men over twenty years.
Despite granting citizenship status to women, the reform did not authorize the suffrage to women, which created a great atmosphere of rejection among women in Colombian society.
Later, in 1947, the project to allow the vote to women was presented again in the House and Senate, and again heard arguments for and against. In this case there were many people who were opposed to approving the project, however, it was closed because there were other projects that were considered more important for the time that he lived.
The discussion about women's suffrage was becoming increasingly difficult to extend, because by that time women could ocuparcargos government, embassies and other high-level positions, but could not participate incredibly popular election.
In 1946, the UN (United Nations) called attention to all American countries whose constitutions were not yet established the right to vote for women, requiring them to act in a reasonable and consistent with the times, because the agency considered that deny women the right to vote was to perpetuate a state of social inequality between men and women.
After many meetings to decide the future of women in the electoral process, was determined to give him the opportunity to vote for the female gender would give broader legitimacy to democracy, that because women were being more than 50% of country's electoral roll.
That was how, finally, women gain the right to vote from the year 1958, in the presidential election that followed the establishment of military laJunta.
The Virtual Library can get more information about this topic:
Colombia: the phenomenon of micro electoral test Eduardo Pizarro on electoral and political practices in Colombia.
Women's rights. Suffrage and political demands of Magdala Text Velasquez Toro on the history of women's suffrage in Colombia.
What is the voting program? Definition and article that governs it.
Legislative Act No. 3 of 1954, amending the Constitution, by which grants women the right to vote and stand for the National Constituent Assembly granted women the right to vote and be elected.

Josefina Valencia Muñoz
Josefina Valencia Muñóz(22 September 1913 - 4 October 1991) was a Colombian activist and politician, a leader of the womens suffrage's movement in Colombia and the first woman to ever head a Colombian Ministry as well as the first female Governor of a Departament of Columbia. As a Member of the Colombian Constituent Assembly of 1954, she approved theLegislative Act No.3, which granted women the right to vote.
Valencia de Hubach was already familiar with the politics of Colombia in the 1950s; her father, Guillermo Valencia had been an active member of the Colombian Conservatoy party, a Congressman minister of finance, Governor, and presidential candidate in the elections of 1918 and 1930, and her brother Guillermo León had been Councilman, Congressman,minister , and Ambassador. Because of her family connections and education, Valencia de Hubach was an intelligent and influential woman who involved herself in the daily politics of her time, a time when women however, were kept out of politics and could not yet vote.

  BY: Eneko Fuentes and Nicolás Gorostiza
A GREAT SAHARAUI WOMAN
We are going to do our project about the sahara and how the position of women improved. There is not so much information about womens but we could find all.
Women in the Sahara wasn´t highly valued but we they separate sahara from Spain people started listening to women and thinking on the rights of women.
In 1945 women won the right to vote because most of the people wanted to do that. Before that, like women could vote they had easier to win their place in the population of the country.
After that year so slowly women started winning their right to have a own bank account, to stand for election... They sometimes join the army but We don't know who was the first women in the parlament but one of the key womans in the sahara is Fátima Mernissi.
AMINATU ALI AHMED HAIDAR
Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar born 24 July 1966, Akka, Morocco),sometimes known as Aminetou, Aminatu or Aminetu, is a Sahrawi human rights activist and an advocate of the independence of Western Sahara. She is sometimes called the "Sahrawi Gandhi" for her nonviolent protests.She is the president of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA). She was imprisoned from 1987 to 1991 and from 2005 to 2006 on charges related to her independence advocacy. In 2009, she attracted international attention when she staged a hunger strike in Lanzarote Airport after being denied re-entry to Morocco. Haidar has won several international human rights awards for her work, including the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the 2009 Civil Courage Prize.
For her work to win the recognition of the rights of the saharauis, she won different international awards, like:
She was candidate for different prizes of international importance like the prize Sájarov, the prize Fondo Ginetta Sagan or the nomination for the Nobel of peace in the year 2008.


In January of 2010 she won the title of honorazi italian citizen, Sesto Florentino.
BY: Amaia Asla and Damin Ouleida