Rita Bosaho
Rita Bosaho | |
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Congress of Deputies | |
In office 13 January 2016 – 27 February 2019 | |
Constituency | Alicante |
Personal details | |
Born | Santa Isabel, Spanish Guinea, Spain (now Malabo, Equatorial Guinea) | 21 May 1965
Nationality | Spanish [citation needed] |
Political party | Podemos |
Alma mater | University of Alicante |
Occupation | Politician, activist, sanitary staff |
Rita Gertrudis Bosaho Gori (born 21 May 1965) is an Equatorial Guinean-Spanish politician and activist member of Podemos, serving as Director-General for Equality of Treatment and Ethnic-racial Diversity in the Spanish Ministry of Equality since 2020. She was a member of the 11th and 12th terms of the Congress of Deputies.
Biography
Bosaho on 21 May 1965 in Santa Isabel (Malabo),[1][2] in the province of Fernando Poo, Spanish Guinea. Bosaho is the niece of Enrique Gori Molubela , a bubi member of the Francoist Cortes, representing the then Spanish colony of Fernando Poo, as well as president of the Fernando Poo's provincial deputation.[3][4]
Bosaho moved to Spain at the age of 4, living with military foster families in Cádiz and Cartagena before moving to Alicante.[5]
She holds a degree in history from the University of Alicante.[6] She worked as a nurse for 23 years in Alicante's general hospital.[7] She earned a Master in Identities and Integration in Contemporary Europe and is preparing a PhD dissertation on the impact of European colonization in Africa.[4] She has also undertook activist work in the field of human rights, focusing, in particular, on reducing violence against women.
A member of
In January 2020, following the formation of the
References
- ^ "XII Legislatura (2016-2019). Bosaho Gori, Rita Gertrudis". Congress of Deputies.
- ^ Juan, Miguel de (2016). "El papel de las ONG y de la sociedad ha suplido a veces la vergüenza del propio Estado" (PDF). Derecho (3). Red Acoge: 10.
- ^ Rita Bosaho, la lucha por la mujer llega de África al Congreso, El Mundo, 18 December 2015
- ^ a b "Rita Bosaho, mano derecha de Irene Montero, primera diputada afroespañola y sobrina de franquista". El Mundo. 21 January 2020.
- ^ a b Rita Bosaho: “Hay que cambiar la estructura del patriarcado”, El País, 24 December 2015
- ^ a b Los críticos de Podemos cuestionan a Bosaho como cabeza de lista, El Mundo, 9 November 2015
- ^ a b Podemos’ Rita Bosaho becomes Spain's first female black MP, The Guardian, 21 December 2015
- ^ Candidaturas presentadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 977/2015, de 26 de octubre
- ^ Pablo Iglesias mete a uno de los suyos como 'cunero' en Alicante, El Mundo, 21 May 2016
- ^ La elegida para encabezar la Dirección de Igualdad de Trato y Diversidad étnico-racial renuncia para evitar el malestar de colectivos antirracistas in eldiario.es (in Spanish)
- eldiario.es. Retrieved 2020-01-31.