Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== Algeria ====

Women's suffrage was in place in Algeria from 1962.

Women's suffrage was introduced in Algeria by the French colonial authorities after a long struggle, and confirmed after Algeria became an independent nation in 1962.
Women's suffrage was introduced in France in 1944. This right automatically included French women residing in French Algeria; but it did not include Muslim Algerian women, since indigenous Algerians was not governed by French law, but indigenous Islamic law.<ref>Maamri, M. R. (2015). The State of Algeria: The Politics of a Post-Colonial Legacy. Storbritannien: Bloomsbury Publishing. p.</ref>

The advocates of women's suffrage raised the question of an extension of suffrage to Muslim women in Algeria to the French National Assembly 
in 1947;<ref name="p113">Maamri, M. R. (2015). The State of Algeria: The Politics of a Post-Colonial Legacy. Storbritannien: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 113</ref> in September 1947 the Organic Statute was passed which granted citizenship to Muslim women in Algeria, but Article 4 of the statue gave the Algerian Assembly free choice to decide when to exercise and introduce that reform.<ref name="p113"/> 
In 1949 the Justrabo Proposal put forvard in the Algerian Assembly suggested to extend suffrage to educated Muslim women, which was a very small minority, but the suggestion did not pass.<ref>Maamri, M. R. (2015). The State of Algeria: The Politics of a Post-Colonial Legacy. Storbritannien: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 114</ref>

When the UN created the [[United Nations Commission on the Status of Women|Commission on the Status of Women]] (CSW) the French UN-delegate 
[[Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux]] worked to have France ratify it in order to force them to introduce suffrage in Algeria.<ref>Maamri, M. R. (2015). The State of Algeria: The Politics of a Post-Colonial Legacy. Storbritannien: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 114-115</ref> 
She succeeded on 20 December 1952 when General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Political Rights of Women.<ref>Maamri, M. R. (2015). The State of Algeria: The Politics of a Post-Colonial Legacy. Storbritannien: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 115</ref>
After this, there was great pressure on France to introduce this reform in the Algerian colony. The French colonial authorities finally passed women's suffrage in 1958.<ref>Harrison, N. (2019). Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education. Storbritannien: Liverpool University Press. p. 210</ref>

Algeria became an independent nation in 1962, and the Algerian Constitution of 1962 confirmed the existing equal political rights to vote and be elected to all citizens.<ref>Maamri, M. R. (2015). The State of Algeria: The Politics of a Post-Colonial Legacy. Storbritannien: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 71</ref>