Isabel Pinto de Vidal

Isabel Pinto de Vidal
BornDecember 13, 1885
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died1969
EducationUniversity of the Republic
Occupations
  • Teacher
  • Lawyer
  • Politician
  • Activist
Known forWomen's rights activism
Political partyColorado Party (Uruguay)
SpouseAngel Vidal
Children2

Isabel Pinto de Vidal (Montevideo, December 13, 1885 – 1969) was a Uruguayan feminist lawyer and politician, and a member of the Colorado Party.[1] Pinto de Vidal was a founding member of the National Women's Council of Uruguay(Consejo Nacional de Mujeres del Uruguay, CONAMU), a branch of the International Council of Women in Uruguay.[2] Her activism alongside the works of feminists such as Paulina Luisi and Francisca Beretervide is credited for achieving women's rights in Uruguay.[3]

After the women's suffrage in Uruguay, the Batllist sector of the Colorado Party, in which Pinto de Vidal was active, entered the electoral campaign of 1942. For the first time in Uruguayan history, women were elected to parliament, Sofía Álvarez Vignoli and Pinto de Vidal were the first senators.[4] In addition, Pinto de Vidal was the first woman to preside over the General Assembly.[5][6]

As one of the nine women to be named delegates and the only female delegate from Uruguay to the United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO) in 1945,[7] Pinto de Vidal worked to ensure women's rights were referenced throughout early documents and legal frameworks. She introduced an amendment that “representation and participation in the organs of the Organization shall be open to both men and women under the same conditions.”[8] Pinto de Vidal's amendment was eventually included as Article 8 of the United Nations Charter.[9][10]

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  3. ^ Giordano, Verónica (2012). Ciudadanas incapaces: la construcción de los derechos civiles de las mujeres en Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay en el siglo XX (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Teseo. p. 89. ISBN 978-987-1859-07-8.
  4. ^ Lavrin, Asunción (2005). Mujeres, feminismo y cambio social en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay: 1890-1940. Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana. p. 409.
  5. ^ Pan American Union (1924). Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Volume 58. The Union, 1924. p. 423.
  6. ^ Barrancos, Dora (2020). Historia mínima de los feminismos en América Latina (in Spanish). El Colegio de Mexico AC. ISBN 978-607-564-217-8.
  7. ^ «Delegations of Uruguay to the General Assemblies of the United Nations from 1945 to 1975». Diplomatic Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay.
  8. ^ Marino, Katherine (2019). Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement. UNC Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-1-4696-4969-6. JSTOR 10.5149/9781469649719_marino. OCLC 1084655495.
  9. ^ Marino, Katherine (2019). Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement. University of North Carolina Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-4696-4969-6. JSTOR 10.5149/9781469649719_marino.
  10. ^ Marino, Katherine (2019). Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement. University of North Carolina Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-4696-4969-6. JSTOR 10.5149/9781469649719_marino.