The Uruguayan Women's Suffrage Alliance (''Alianza Uruguaya por el Sufragio Femenino'', or simply ''Alianza'') was a Uruguayan

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...

organization. The Alianza was cofounded by

Paulina Luisi Paulina Luisi (1875–1950) was a leader of the feminist movement in the country of Uruguay. In 1909, she became the first Uruguayan woman to earn a medical degree and was a firm advocate of sex education in the schools. She represented Uruguay in ...

in August 1919, breaking away from

CONAMU The National Women's Council of Uruguay (''Consejo Nacional de Mujeres del Uruguay'', CONAMU) was a women's organization in Uruguay, founded in 1916. It was founded by the leading suffragist Paulina Luisi in 1916 along with other feminists such ...

to concentrate on pressing for women's suffrage. It was an affiliate of the

International Women's Suffrage Alliance The International Alliance of Women (IAW; french: Alliance Internationale des Femmes, AIF) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's rights and gender equality. It was historically the main international org ...

(IWSA). In 1929 the Alianza restated its programme, placing female legal equality as its number one goal, and relegating female suffrage to fifth place in its list of priorities.

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1919 establishments in Uruguay First-wave feminism Feminist organizations in South America Organizations established in 1919 Social history of Uruguay Voter rights and suffrage organizations Women's organizations based in Uruguay Women's suffrage in Uruguay Feminism in Uruguay {{Uruguay-hist-stub