Aïssata Mounkaïla

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Aïssata Karidjo Mounkaïla (* 1942 ) is a Nigerien politician .

Life

Aïssata Mounkaïla is the daughter of a civil servant. Her father pushed her into vocational training. She attended the École Nationale d'Administration school in Niamey , where she learned to be a secretary. Mounkaïla entered the public service in 1967 and worked in various ministries. She was initially elected Deputy General Secretary at the founding congress of the Association des Femmes du Niger (ANF) in 1977 and soon served as its General Secretary for many years. The ANF was founded as a state women's organization during the regime of the Supreme Military Council under Head of State Seyni Kountché .

In the parliamentary elections of 1989 , five women were elected to the National Assembly for the first time , including Aïssata Mounkaïla. She became a member of the Niamey section of the National Development Society Movement (MNSD-Nassara). Mounkaïla was re-elected in the 1993 and 1995 elections. She left parliament in the 1996 elections. Jeannette Schmidt Degener was the only remaining female member of parliament. In the 1999 elections , Mounkaïla was re-elected to the National Assembly. She was now the only female MP. In 2003 she hosted a meeting in Niamey of around sixty female MPs from member states of the Organization internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). In 2004 she also became a member of the Pan-African Parliament of the African Union . After the introduction of a gender quota Aïssata Mounkaïla was in the 2004 elections voted along with several other women in the National Assembly. She finally left in 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stéphanie Tesson, Monique Clesca: 100 femmes du Niger . UNFPA Niger, Niamey 2013, p. 197 .
  2. ↑ a b Alice J. Kang: Bargaining for Women's Rights. Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2015, ISBN 978-1-4529-4427-2 , pp. 84, 104-105 .
  3. ^ Overture to Niamey de la réunion du réseau des femmes parlementaires de la Francophonie. In: Le Quotidien du Peuple. July 7, 2003, accessed August 25, 2019 (French).
  4. ^ List of members of the Pan African Parliament (as of March 15, 2004). (PDF) African Union, p. 6 , archived from the original on February 20, 2006 ; accessed on August 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mounkaïla, Aïssata
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karidjo Mounkaïla, Aïssata (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1942