Radhia Haddad
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Radhia Haddad 🇹🇳

راضية الحداد (Known as "Radhia Haddad")
Pioneering Feminist Leader, President of the UNFT (1958–1972), Member of Parliament
Born Mar 17, 1922 🇹🇳 Tunis, Tunisia
Passed Away Oct 20, 2003 Carthage, Tunisia
Lifespan 81 years old
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"A woman's emancipation is not a gift bestowed by benevolent leaders; it is a dignity won through education and relentless courage."

Archival Overview

Trailblazing feminist leader and parliamentarian who presided over the National Union of Tunisian Women (UNFT) from 1958 to 1972, driving nationwide literacy and implementing the Code of Personal Status.

Biographical Record

Born Radhia Ben Ammar in Tunis to a patriotic bourgeois family, she rebelled against conservative domestic seclusion in youth, joining the nationalist struggle with the Neo-Destour. In 1958, President Bourguiba appointed her President of the National Union of Tunisian Women (UNFT).

For fifteen years, Haddad turned the UNFT into a powerful grassroots mobilization engine, opening hundreds of rural women's centers, promoting contraception and child welfare, and defending the historic Code of Personal Status (CSP). Elected MP for three terms, her courage in standing up for judicial independence remains iconic.

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Final Resting Place

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Djellaz Cemetery
Tunis, Tunisia
GPS: 36.7833, 10.1833
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