The Uruguayan Women's Suffrage Alliance (''Alianza Uruguaya por el Sufragio Femenino'', or simply ''Alianza'') was a Uruguayan

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...

organization. The Alianza was cofounded by

Paulina Luisi Paulina Luisi Janicki (; 22 September 1875 – 16 July 1950) was a Uruguayan physician, suffragist and political activist who played a prominent role in advancing the feminist movement in Uruguay and participated in international efforts for wo ...

in August 1919, breaking away from

CONAMU The National Women's Council of Uruguay (''Consejo Nacional de Mujeres del Uruguay'', CONAMU) was a women's organization in Uruguay, founded in 1916. It was founded by the leading suffragist Paulina Luisi in 1916 along with other feminists such ...

to concentrate on pressing for women's suffrage. It was an affiliate of the

International Women's Suffrage Alliance The International Alliance of Women (IAW; , AIF) is an International non-governmental organization, international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's rights and gender equality. It was historically the main international o ...

(IWSA). In 1929 the Alianza restated its programme, placing female legal equality as its number one goal, and relegating female suffrage to fifth place in its list of priorities.

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1919 establishments in Uruguay First-wave feminism Feminist organizations in South America Organizations established in 1919 Social history of Uruguay Voter rights and suffrage organizations Women's organizations based in Uruguay Women's suffrage in Uruguay Feminism in Uruguay {{Uruguay-hist-stub