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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
Cristiana Chamorro Barrios: April 25, 1990 January 10, 1997 Violeta Chamorro: Violeta Chamorro, Nicaragua's first female president, was a widow. Her daughter, Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, served in the role of first lady during her presidency. [1] [2] [3] María Dolores Alemán Cardinel: January 10, 1997 October 23, 1999 Arnoldo Alemán
In 2005, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was awarded jointly to Reporters without Borders, Nigerian human rights lawyer Huawa Ibrahim, and the Ladies in White.Five of the leaders of the movement were selected to receive the prize: Laura Pollán, whose husband Hector Maseda is serving a 20-year sentence; Miriam Leiva, whose husband Oscar Espinosa Chepe has been conditionally released ...
The Junta de Damas worked to reform the Inclusa by disinfecting it thoroughly, setting up new medical services with strict hygiene regimens, and hiring qualified staff to assist in its management. These new precautions caused the infant mortality rate to drop from 96 to 46 percent in the early 1800s.
An oil on canvas painting measuring 1.15 m × 1.57 m (45 in × 62 in), Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho is a "landmark painting" depicting the persecution of Christians in Ancient Rome. [3]
Sólo Para Mujeres came after the success of its predecessor, Sólo Para Hombres (Just for Men), a play that starred Lorena Herrera, among others, and which came about after Herrera's participation in the famous telenovela, Dos Mujeres, un Camino. Sólo Para Hombres featured Herrera and other famous Mexican actresses dancing on stage with scant ...
The original TWCU campus in Iogi-mura, Toyotama-gun, to which the university moved in 1924, [3] was built in the 1920s and is very significant architecturally. It was designed by Antonin Raymond who came to Tokyo with Frank Lloyd Wright to build the famous Imperial Hotel.
Cristiana Chamorro Barrios: April 25, 1990 January 10, 1997 Violeta Chamorro: Violeta Chamorro, Nicaragua's first female president, was a widow. Her daughter, Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, served in the role of first lady during her presidency. [1] [2] [3] María Dolores Alemán Cardinel: January 10, 1997 October 23, 1999 Arnoldo Alemán