![]() ![]() ![]() The boldest move, she said, was an advertisement where the women of Inner Rhodes publicly declared their support for universal suffrage. “(At the time) there were individual activists like Ottilia Paky-Sutter and artist Sibylle Neff, who threw plates out of the window in protest during the Landsgemeinde,” art historian Agathe Nisple remembered. But when the national social democratic women’s organisation held its annual meeting in Appenzell at the end of the 1980s, it was met with strong resistance. On Swiss television, feminists from the big cities called the canton ‘piece of Walt Disney’ and said they needed their own feminist movement. Whilst feminist movements demanding more rights for women, formed through Switzerland, after the 70s, Appenzell Inner Rhodes, remained secluded. “In Appenzell, people ask: ‘Who do you belong to?’,” she explained, adding that attitudes like this are part of the reason why women have been excluded from gaining political rights for so long. ![]() Rupal assumed that women’s suffrage prevailed in all western democracies. ![]() “My girlfriends sent me clippings from the The New York Times and The Guardian about it,” she remembered. When she first arrived, she had no idea that women were not allowed to vote. Rupal, has lived in “the village”, the capital of Appenzell Inner Rhodes, since the late 1980s. I guess mine were the only dark hands going up in the air that day,” she recalled.Īnju Rupal was informed about Appenzell's laggard status by her friends in New York. “I was so excited that I raised both hands. Simply talking about the historic day still fills her with joy. End of insertionĪnju Rupal, a Briton of Indian descent who gained Swiss citizenship through marriage, was part of the first women to ever enter the square and participate in the Landsgemeinde. On March 4, 2021, SWI swissinfo.ch will conduct a digital panel discussion on “50 years of women's suffrage: old question of power, new struggle with new minds”. This first report is about Appenzell Inner Rhodes which became the last Swiss canton to introduce women’s suffrage at cantonal and communal level in 1991. SWI swissinfo.ch devotes a special feature to this inglorious anniversary. This makes it a young liberal democracy even though it is widely viewed as a model of direct democracy. Switzerland was one of the last countries to introduce universal suffrage. On February 7, 1971, women finally gained the right to vote in national elections. Determined to write about the little known stories, he is the author of several books including 'Breslau 1945: El ultimo bastion del Reich', 'Fuerzas acorazadas hungaras 1939-45', 'The Spanish in the SS and Wehrmacht.1944-45', 'The Bulgarian Air Force in World War II', 'Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana 1943-45' and 'Romanian Armored Forces in World War II'.Celebrating 50 years of voting rights for women In this text we will remember the amazing history of these made in Spain aircraft.ġ32 archival photographs and 12 colour profiles covered in these 80 pages, which also serves as a great referenten for scale modelingĮduardo Manuel Gil Martinez has been interested in history for many years, particularly the Second World War. Fortunately even today some of the HA-1112s fly majestic as worthy descendants of the great aircraft that was and always will be the Messerschmitt Bf 109. These aircraft manufactured in Spain enlarged the Bf 109 life about 20 years since the end of World War 2 because continued in active service until 1965 coexisting with the 2nd and the 3rd generation jet. When Spain acquired the manufacturing under license of the Bf 109 G-2 began the history of the Messerschmitt Bf 109s made in Spain, which gave rise to two aircraft such as the HA-1109 and the HA-1112, with several subtypes. Only a few months since the maiden flight, three prototypes were sent to Spain to be tested during the Spanish Civil War and shortly after Spain bought E and F series. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was without doubts one of the most important airplanes in the history of aviation and since the beginning its history was linked to Spain. ![]()
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