Carmen Clemente Travieso | |
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Born | Caracas, Venezuela | 24 July 1900
Died | 24 January 1983 Caracas, Venezuela | (aged 82)
Nationality | Venezuelan |
Occupation(s) | journalist, suffrage activist, human rights activist |
Years active | 1930–1977 |
Carmen Clemente Travieso (1900–1983) was a Venezuelan journalist and women's rights activist. She was the first graduate of the Central University of Venezuela as a reporter and one of the first women employed as a full-time journalist in Venezuela. She was one of the earliest group of women who joined the Communist Party of Venezuela and worked actively for women's suffrage. She was a co-founder of an organization in favor of prison reform and a co-founder of the Venezuelan Association of Journalists.