#Women4Multilateralism is a project initiated in 2022 by the Delegation
of the European Union and the Permanent Mission of Gabon in Geneva

#Women4Multilateralism is a project initiated in 2022 by the Delegation of the European Union and the Permanent Mission of Gabon in Geneva

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Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė

Lithuania

Women's rights activist and independence fighter

Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė was a distinguished political figure in interwar Lithuania. She was an educator, writer, women‘s rights activist and fighter for independence and chaired the first session of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania in 1920.

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