Exposé Anglais Gisele Halimi

« Gisèle Halimi Introduction: Today, I’m going to talk to you about Gisèle Halimi, a great French lawyer who defended Algeria's independence, the right to abortion and the criminalization of rape. I.

Biography : Gisèle Halimi was born in Tunisia on July 27, 1927 in "La Goulette", in a rather modest family.

When Gisèle was born her parents only assumed her birth after 15 days because of their deception of having a daughter and not a son.

And quickly, her feminist ideas arised.

At the age of 13, she started a greve of hunger because she was against the obligation made to girls to serve the men at the table and to devote themselves to household tasks from which her brothers are dispensed.

Later she obtained her law license and two bachelor’s degrees in philosophy at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University. II.

Her fight for decolonization : In 1950, Gisèle Halimi campaigned for the independence of Algeria, she was the lawyer of Algerian convicts who were innocent, and she also denounced the torture practiced by the French army. Therefore Gisèle became one of the main lawyers of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). From 1960, she defended Djamila Boupacha, an FLN activist, accused of having planted a bomb in a restaurant in Algiers, and who was tortured and raped in detention by French soldiers.

This trial is defended by the writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir who, in the process, co-wrote with Gisèle Halimi Djamila Boupacha, a book that garnered many supporters and the participation of great names.

Thanks to the lawyer’s defense, the girl escaped the death penalty. III.

Her struggle for women's rights : To begin with, Gisèle Halimi is the only lawyer who signed, in 1971, the manifesto of the 343 women who claim to have aborted and demanded free.... »