Jeanne Martin Cissé

Jeanne Martin Cissé (born April 6, 1926 in Kankan , French Guinea ; † February 21, 2017 in Conakry ) was a Guinean politician and doyenne of Guinean women's politics .

Life

After attending the École normal de Rufisque , a pedagogical seminar in Rufisque , Senegal , she worked as a teacher from 1945 to 1954 and as director of a school from 1954 to 1958. Since 1954 she was active in various functions in the RDA and later in the PDG Cissé since 1972 member of the Central Committee of the PDG and member of the Politburo since 1978 and first Vice-President of the Guinean National Assembly until 1972 . She has represented Guinea at many international meetings and conferences and has served as an ambassador to Brazil , Argentina and Venezuela .

She served as Guinea's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and in 1973 became the first woman in the world to chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council . From 1963 to 1969 she was the Guinean representative on the UN Committee on Women's Rights.

Martin Cissé chaired the World Conference on the International Women's Year held in Mexico in June 1975. As chairman of the Pan-African women's movement, Jeanne-Martin Cissé was elected chairman of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in October 1975.

From 1976 to 1984 she served as the Guinean Minister for Social Affairs, succeeding Mafory Bangoura . Briefly imprisoned after Sekou Touré's death , Martin Cissé lived in the United States .

literature

• Jeanne Martin Cissé: La fille Du Milo. Editions Présence Africaine, Paris 2009. (autobiography)
• Cissé, Jeanne Martin , in: Jenny Uglow , Maggy Hendry: Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography . London: Macmillan, 1999 (3rd edition), ISBN 0333725735 , p. 126

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeanne Martin Cissé n'est plus! VisionGuinee.Info, February 21, 2017, accessed February 22, 2017 (French).