Fédération abolitionniste internationale

The Fédération abolitionniste International (FAI) was one of bourgeois - Catholic women from western Switzerland and France was established in 1877 morality club with the aim of prostitution and its social consequences fight ( abolitionism ).

The founders were politically active - within the scope of their possibilities at the time - against the state tolerating prostitution. In addition, they were actively engaged in charitable work by helping “ fallen girls and women ” to earn a living in other ways than prostituting themselves.

The FAI was one of the first organizations of the Swiss women's movement . The FAI recruited its members in the Christian renewal movement of the upper class in western Switzerland . The first general secretary was the Neuchâtel politician Aimé Humbert-Droz , who was also the editor of the club's Bulletin Continental magazine . From 1877 onwards, the Calvinist women split off and emancipated themselves in the Swiss Women's Federation in order to improve morality .