Liga Paraguaya de los Derechos de la Mujer
(Redirected from Paraguayan League for the Rights of Women)
Liga Paraguaya de los Derechos de la Mujer was a women's organization in Paraguay, founded in 1951. [1]
It was founded by the leading suffragist Mercedes Sandoval de Hempel in 1951. It was proceeded by Unión Femenina del Paraguay (UFP) (1936–1937) and the Unión Democrática de Mujeres (1946–1947), but was to become the first long term women's organization.
It played an important role in the struggle for women's suffrage, which was finally introduced in 1961, the last for any South American nation.