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Graciela Quan Valenzuela was the first female Guatemalan lawyer and an active suffragette, writing a draft proposal for Guatemala's enfranchisement law. She was a social worker, adviser to the President of Guatemala, delegate to the United Nations and the President of the Inter-American Commission of Women. ==Biography== Graciela Quan Valenzuela was born circa 1920 in Guatemala and graduated from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in 1942 as the country's first female attorney. Quan's thesis, "Ciudadanía opcional para la mujer guatemalteca" (Citizenship is optional for Guatemalan women) proposed a draft law for granting enfranchisement to women. In 1944, Quan founded with a group of women including Angelina Acuña de Castañeda, Berta Corleto, Elisa Hall de Asturias, Gloria Méndez Mina de Padilla, Rosa de Mora, and Irene de Peyré the ''Unión Femenina Guatemalteca Pro-ciudadanía'' (Union of Guatemalan Women for Citizenship) favoring recognition of their civil rights, including suffrage for literate women. After the Guatemalan 1944 coup d'état the new Constitution, promulgated on 1 March 1945 granted the right to vote to all literate citizens, including women. She was one of the organizers of the Primer Congreso Interamericano de Mujeres (First Inter-American Congress of Women) held on 27 August 1947 in Guatemala City, which had as one of its main themes equality of men and women. That same year, she was one of the founders of the Altrusa Club Guatemala, an affiliate of the organization Altrusa International, Inc. The initial goal of the club was to provide impoverished girls with an education; it later expanded to assisting street children and founding the municipal children's library. Quan served as a delegate to the United Nations in 1956 and 1957 as well as an adviser to President Carlos Castillo Armas on social issues. Between 1957 and 1961 Quan served as Guatemala's representative to the Inter-American Commission of Women and the organization's president.〔〔 〕 In 1978, she was recommended as a regional adviser to the Agency for International Development on women's issues in Latin America based upon her previous experience on the United Nation's Human Rights Commission and her pioneering social work in Guatemala. Quan died on 22 January 1999 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graciela Quan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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