Martin Cissé, Jeanne, 1926-2017
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Cissé, Jeanne Martin, 1926-2017
Martin Cissé, Jeanne, 1926-
Martin, Jeanne, 1926-2017
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- Organization: Guinea. Ministère des affaires sociales
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found: La fille du Milo, c2009:t.p. (Jeanne Martin Cissé) after p. 64 (photo captions: Jeanne Martin, caption for school portrait; secretary general, Organisation panafricaine des femmes, 1967) p. 4 of cover (Guinean; representative of Guinea to the United Nations, first woman to preside over the U.N. Security Council)
found: Judith Kaplan Eisenstein website, viewed Mar. 17, 2010(Jean Martin Cisse, b. 1925; first woman appointed to the U.N. as a delegate; began career as a teacher in 1945, entered politics in 1959; Sec. Gen. of the Conference of African Women 1962-1972; returned to Guinea in 1976 to be Minister of Social Affairs)
found: Wikipedia, November 5, 2023(Jeanne Martin Cissé; born 6 April 1926 in Kankan, Guinea; father Darricau Martin Cissé, P.T.T. employee for the French colonial administration (Malinke with Soninke origins); mother Damaye Soumah, midwife (Soussou); trained as a teacher at the École Normale de Rufisque, Senegal; joined the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain in December 1947; lived in Senegal with her husband Ansoumane Touré, one of the founders of the Guinea Democratic Party; after Guinea's 1958 referendum they returned to Guinea; in 1959 Martin Cissé was a delegate to the congress of the West African Women's Union in Bamako; she was Secretary General of the Pan African Women's Organization 1962-1972; elected to parliament in 1968 and joined the Central Committee after her husband's arrest and death in 1971; first woman Vice-President of the National Assembly of Guinea; delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights; in 1972 she was appointed as Guinea's Permanent Representative to the United Nations; chaired the UN Security Council and the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid; returned to Guinea in 1976 at the request of President Touré, who appointed her Minister of Social Affairs and a member of the Democratic Party of Guinea Politburo; after Tourés death in 1984 she was arrested along with other political leaders and detailed for 13 months; after the failed coup attempt in July 1985 she left Guinea, for Senegal and then to the United States; lived in Baltimore, Maryland; died 21 February 2017)
found: Jeune Afrique, La Guinée endeuillée par la disparition de Jeanne Martin Cissé, figure de l'indépendance et des droits des femmes, 22 février 2017, viewed November 6, 2023(died February 21, age 91; exiling herself to the United States in 1985; she returned to her country shortly after 2000; had lived for many years in her villa in Donka, an old residential quarter in the center of Conakry)
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2010-03-17: new
2023-11-07: revised
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