Lawyer, politician and writer, Gisèle Halimi, died in July 2020 at 93, made her life a fight for women’s rights.
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Sixty-six majority deputies asked Emmanuel Macron on Friday 25 November to bring Gisèle Halimi to the Pantheon, on the occasion of International Day against violence against women and after a vote of The Assembly for the registration of the right to abortion in the Constitution.
“In too many countries, women’s rights collapse a little more every day under the weight of growing concurantism and obscurantism”, write the Renaissance deputy by Gironde Sophie Panonacle and 75 of her colleagues , signatories of a letter addressed to the head of state so that “Gisèle Halimi can be the seventh woman in the pantheon” and that she joins “her wrestling sister Simone Veil”.
“Gisèle Halimi was one of whom we owe so much. Brilliant lawyer, feminist activist and former deputy, that for whom injustice was intolerable, consecrated her life to defend the poor, the oppressed and the women”, insist they. Elected officials, member of the three parliamentary groups of the presidential camp (Renaissance, Horizons, MoDem), greet “his unalterable courage” and “all of his humanist fights”.
too cleavage positions?
lawyer, politician and writer, Gisèle Halimi, died on July 28, 2020 at 93, made her life a fight for women’s rights, marked by a resounding trial in 1972. She then defended, before the court Correctional of Bobigny, in the Paris region, Marie-Claire Chevalier, a minor accused of having recourse to an abortion after being the victim of rape. She obtained the relaxation of the young woman and managed to mobilize opinion, paving the way for the decriminalization of abortion, at the beginning of 1975. Elected deputy in 1981, she continued combat in the assembly, this time For the reimbursement of the voluntary pregnancy interruption (abortion), finally voted in 1982.
She also signed up for the defense of activists from the National Liberation Front (FLN) and denounced the use of torture during the Algerian War. Required several times by feminist associations and political leaders, its “pantheonization” has come up against the Elysée reluctance in recent years, because of its positions on the Algerian war and its defense of FLN activists, deemed too cleavage, according to members of the president’s entourage.