Organização da Mulher Moçambicana
Organização da Mulher Moçambicana (OMM), in English "Organization of Mozambican Women", is a Mozambican women's rights organization . The FRELIMO -related organization was founded on March 16, 1973 by the then chairman of FRELIMO, Samora Machel .
The socialist-Marxist Mozambican Liberation Front ( FRELIMO ) also fought against the then existing image of women and for gender equality as part of its struggle for independence from Portuguese East Africa . Josina Machel , resistance fighter, feminist and second wife of FRELIMO chairman Samora Machel was considered an icon of the female liberation struggle . After her death on April 7, 1971, Machel declared the day of her death to be Mozambican Women's Day. Two years later, on March 16, 1973, Machel founded the "Organização da Mulher Moçambicana", as a feminist wing of FRELIMO:
«A Organização da Mulher Moçambicana que se constitui surge na estrutura da FRELIMO como um novo braço da nossa Revolução que deve atingir as largas massas de mulheres que até agora se conservavam à margem do processo de transformação que tem lugar na nossa Pátria. É a Organização da Mulher Moçambicana que deve trazer para a luta pela emancipação da Mulher e para a luta revolucionária, os milhões de mulheres do nosso País. »
“The organization of the Mozambican women to be founded arises from the structure of FRELIMO as a new wing of our revolution. It should include all women who have so far only found themselves on the edge of the process of transformation of our fatherland. It is the Mozambican women’s organization that aims to win the millions of women in our country over to the struggle for the emancipation of women and the revolutionary struggle. "
The organization saw itself as a link between the party and the population.
To this day, the OMM is one of the most important organizations in Mozambican society. Despite the democratization of Mozambique since 1992 and the separation of state and party that is required in principle, the OMM is accused of being close to or belonging to the government due to its history and its personal overlap with FRELIMO, which has ruled since 1975. Numerous women ministers in the last government cabinets held various positions in the OMM.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Uric Raul Mandequisse: Grito por uma Organização da Mulher Moçambicana! (No longer available online.) Olho do Cidadão, archived from the original on February 15, 2015 ; Retrieved June 5, 2015 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Signe Arnfred: Women in Mozambique: Gender Struggle and Gender Politics . In: Review of African Political Economy . Socialism, Democracy and Popular Struggles, No. 41 , September 1988, pp. 5-16 .
