October 3, 1950: Eleanor Roosevelt Praises Women’s Rights Victories Around the World and Asks for

[niyad]

October 3, 1950: Eleanor Roosevelt Praises Women’s Rights Victories Around the World and Asks for More




Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady and present U.S. Delegate to the United Nations, today praised the progress the women of the world have made in winning the vote in the five years since the United Nations was established. According to the U.N.’s latest report, women now have the same voting rights as men in 56 countries, a gain of 21 since 1945.

There is still work to do, however, because sixteen countries deny women any political rights: Afghanistan, Columbia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Lichtenstein, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Yemen. In Bolivia, Greece, Mexico, Monaco and Peru, women have partial suffrage and may vote in local elections only. In Guatemala, Portugal and Syria they have full suffrage, but only if they meet educational or literacy standards not required of men.

Roosevelt said today:

The right to the franchise is basic and fundamental. The fact that it has been abused, both by citizens and governments, should not blind us to its potential as the fundamental safeguard for the individual. It is axiomatic that political institutions and relations among governments must change. The important point is that when changes are needed they come about peacefully through the free choice of all the people.

She credited the U.N. Charter with helping to speed this trend toward equality for women, and told the General Assembly’s Social Committee that countries in which women do not have equal suffrage were now seen as “out of step with the times.”

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http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2014/10/03/october-3-1950-eleanor-roosevelt-praises-womens-rights-victories-around-the-world-and-asks-for-more/

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Eleanor stood above the fray. She was a lightening rod. A truly amazing woman.

[RufusTFirefly]

2. If only she were here today. I would vote for her for President in a heartbeat. n/t

[sheshe2]

3. KnR!

[Duppers]

4. it surprises me that Lichtenstein and Switzerland ...

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..are on that list. Omg.

UPDATE:
According to Wiki, this article is WRONG about most of the countries on that list.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage

[niyad]

5. . . .