- Source: Organization of Mozambican Women
The Organization of Mozambican Women (Portuguese: Organização da Mulher Moçambicana OMM) is the women's section of FRELIMO. Founded in 1973, during the Mozambican War of Independence, in recognition of women's growing roles in the conflict against Portuguese colonialism, the OMM was created as a non-military structure to promote women's education, emancipation and mobilization. Following independence in 1975, the OMM focussed on issues related to women's education, ethnic division, divorce, family planning, adultery and promiscuity, prostitution, and alcoholism. In 1990, the OMM voted to separate from FRELIMO, although shortly thereafter, the organization re-affiliated.
Origins
Women's participation in the armed struggle against Portuguese colonialism beginning in the 1960s has been described as "massive" and led to the formation of a women's detachment, Destacamento Feminino, in the People's Forces for the Liberation of Mozambique in 1967.
Secretaries General
Deolinda Guezimane (1973–1976)
Salomé Moiane (1977–1990)
Teresa Tembo (1990–1996)
Paulina Mateus Nkunda (1996–2011)
Muania Mussa (2011)
Amélia Franklin (2011–2013)
Maria de Fátima Muanza Pelembe (2013–2016)
Mariazinha Niquice (2016–current)
References
External links
Organização da Mulher Moçambicana, 1973-1996
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Organization of Mozambican Women
- OMM
- Isaura Nyusi
- List of women's organizations
- Josina Machel
- Verónica Macamo
- Destacamento Feminino
- FRELIMO
- Women's International Democratic Federation
- League of Mozambican Women
