Resistance of Lalla Fatma N'Soumeur
March 8 is an opportunity for the whole world to celebrate women. This date is that of the struggle of all women in the world for development, progress, non-discrimination and the recognition of human rights. The whole world will participate in the commemoration of the tragic events that occurred in 1857, more than a century ago in NEW YORK, where demonstrations by working women were bloodily repressed. These events symbolize the millennial struggle of women.
This March 8 is an opportunity to recall that throughout the world, the situation of women is still difficult despite the charters and conventions which enshrine their rights and notwithstanding the efforts made by all the States of the world for the advancement of women.
The BEIJING conference reminded the whole world that women are the first victims of poverty and illiteracy, that they have different and unequal access to health care and that violence against them is a universally widespread phenomenon.
The fight of women in the world for development, equality and justice is a fight in which Algerian women have always participated. LALLA FADHMA N'SOUMEUR (1830-1863) is one of the emblematic symbols of this fight.
Renouncing the comfortable situation offered to her by belonging to a prestigious family, descendant of the founder of the most important school of Sufism in the Maghreb, LALLA FADHMA N'SOUMEUR preferred to follow the heroes of the popular resistance against the colonial invader. At the age of twenty-one, she took up arms alongside BOUBEGHLA. At the age of twenty-seven she fought General RANDON who ended up taking her prisoner until her death at the age of thirty-three.
This March 8 is an opportunity to recall that throughout the world, the situation of women is still difficult despite the charters and conventions which enshrine their rights and notwithstanding the efforts made by all the States of the world for the advancement of women.
The BEIJING conference reminded the whole world that women are the first victims of poverty and illiteracy, that they have different and unequal access to health care and that violence against them is a universally widespread phenomenon.
The fight of women in the world for development, equality and justice is a fight in which Algerian women have always participated. LALLA FADHMA N'SOUMEUR (1830-1863) is one of the emblematic symbols of this fight.
Renouncing the comfortable situation offered to her by belonging to a prestigious family, descendant of the founder of the most important school of Sufism in the Maghreb, LALLA FADHMA N'SOUMEUR preferred to follow the heroes of the popular resistance against the colonial invader. At the age of twenty-one, she took up arms alongside BOUBEGHLA. At the age of twenty-seven she fought General RANDON who ended up taking her prisoner until her death at the age of thirty-three.