The Liga Feminista Costarricense (Costa Rican Feminist League) was the first feminist organization formed in Costa Rica. In 1923, Mexican feminist
Elena Arizmendi Mejia
Elena may refer to:
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* Elena (town), a town in Velik ...
who was living in New York and publishing a magazine ''Feminismo Internacional'' (International Feminism) invited women all over the world to create subsidiaries of the
International League of Iberian and Latin American Women International League of Iberian and Latin American Women (Liga Internacional de Mujeres Ibﾃｩricas e Hispanoamericanas) is an international organization of Latin American and Iberian women founded in 1921 by liberal feminists from both regions.
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on 12 October of that year.
As a result,
ﾃ］gela Acuﾃｱa Braun
ﾃ］gela Acuﾃｱa Braun, also known as ﾃ］gela Acuﾃｱa de Chacﾃｳn, (2 October 1888 窶 10 October 1983), a Costa Rican lawyer, women's rights pioneer and ambassador, was the first woman to graduate as a lawyer in Central America. Orphaned at the a ...
called together a group to found the Liga Feminista Costarricense (LFC), first feminist organization in Costa Rica. The inaugural members were Acuﾃｱa (president),
Esther De Mezerville (vice president),
Ana Rosa Chacﾃｳn
Ana Rosa Chacﾃｳn (1889 窶 28 March 1985) was a Costa Rican educator, health education practitioner, feminist and suffragette. In 1953, in the first election held after women became enfranchisement, enfranchised in Costa Rica, Chacﾃｳn became one ...
(secretary), and participants Marﾃｭa Ester Acuﾃｱa, Isabel Calderﾃｳn, Lela Campos,
Sara Casal de Quirﾃｳz, Rosario Floripe,
Lidia Fernﾃ｡ndez, Amﾃｩrica de Hern, Ana Marﾃｭa Loaiza, Vitalia Madrigal, Marita O'Leary de Hine, Corina Rodrﾃｭguez, Marﾃｭa del Rosario Burgos, Marta Sancho, Marﾃｭa Teresa Villegas and Marﾃｭa Isabel Zamora.
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Organizations established in 1923
Feminist organizations in Costa Rica