Henriette Rasmussen
Henriette Ellen Kathrine Vilhelmine Rasmussen née Jeremiassen (1950 – 2017) was a Greenlandic educator, journalist, women's rights activist and politician. In 1992, she provided support for the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and in 1996, was appointed principal advisor to the ILO in connection with the 1989 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention. As a member of Inuit Ataqatigiit from the early 1980s, she strove for Greenlandic independence from Denmark and served as Greenland's Minister of Culture and Education (2003–2005). Early life Born in Qasigiannguit in western Greenland on 8 June 1950, Henriette Ellen Kathrine Vilhelmine Jeremiassen was the daughter of Jens Emil Axel Jeremiassen (1919–93), a skipper, and Birthe Marie Margrethe Møller (born 1924), a factory worker. The eldest daughter in a family of eight children, she was brought up to recognize the equality of the sexes and to appreciate the importance of education. As a teenager, she spe ...
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Henriette may refer to: * Princess Henriette of France * Henriette of Cleves * Henriette Willemina Crommelin (1870-1957), Dutch labor leader and temperance reformer * Henriette Dibon (1902–1989), French poet and short story writer. * Henriette Hansen, Norwegian ballerina, singer and actor * Henriette Petit (1894-1983), Chilean painter * Henriette Yvonne Stahl * Henriette, Minnesota * Hurricane Henriette (other) * '' La fête à Henriette'', a 1952 French film often known simply as ''Henriette'' * ''Henriette Bimmelbahn'', an anthropomorphized steam locomotive-hauled train in the eponymous German picture book by James Krüss See also * * Henrietta (other) Henrietta may refer to: * Henrietta (given name), a feminine given name, derived from the male name Henry Places * Henrietta Island in the Arctic Ocean * Henrietta, Mauritius * Henrietta, Tasmania, a locality in Australia United States * Henr ...