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An independence referendum was held in French Algeria on 1 July 1962. It followed French approval of the Évian Accords in an April referendum.Voters were asked whether Algeria should become an independent state, co-operating with France; 99.72% voted in favour with a voter turnout of 91.88%.
This included the Plan de Constantine aimed at increasing female education, [38] Ordonnance 59-274 giving women more say in their marital status, public unveiling of female Algerians by French women, [39] extension of the vote to women in 1957, [40] and the symbolic installation of Muslim women in public office, [41] among others. Unfortunately ...
Prior to the war of independence, women were in general excluded from the political life. Even though Algerian women had a big role in the war of independence, in the immediate postwar period after 1962 women’s roles as combatants and fighters were removed from the historical narrative by a “patriarchal nationalist movement”. [28]
The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) [nb 1] was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. [29]
Algeria gained independence on February 20, 1962 when the French government signed a peace accord. [4] While the women's movement made significant gains post-independence, peace in the country did not last long. Shortly after gaining independence, the Algerian Civil War began. The civil war erupted from anger regarding one party rule and ever ...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is celebrating 60 years of independence from France on Tuesday with nationwide ceremonies, a pardon The post Algeria marks 60 years of independence with military ...
The FLN’s ‘memorial context of post-independence Algeria’ even impacted historians’ ability to locate witnesses of pre-independence Algeria and its political events, and it also explains why witnesses were often so hesitant to tell stories of post-1962 Algeria- for fear of contradicting the FLN-imposed narrative. [7]
Nassima Hablal (September 15, 1928 – May 14, 2013) was an Algerian independence activist.She was one of the 10,949 women who fought in the Algerian revolution. [1] Hablal was active in the Algerian People's Party (APP) and was the secretary of Abane Ramdane at the CCE, the Coordinating and Execution Committee for one of the branches of the FLN. [2]