Nationality Bulgarian Died June 17, 1955 | Name Jeni Bojilova-Pateva | |
Jeni Bojilova-Pateva (bulg. ZHeni Bozhilova-Pateva; December 1878 - 17 June 1955) is a Bulgarian human rights activists.
Work
Bojilova-Pateva has been a delegate to the 1907 Congress of the International Women’s Union in Amsterdam, where she insisted that the Bulgarian Women’s Union should become a member of the International Women’s Union. She held a lecture at the International women’s congress in Stockholm (1911) and she was an active participant in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1915).
As an official representative of the Government of Aleksandar Stamboliyski, she took part in the International women’s congress in Norway (1920) with the paper “The state of woman and child”. She made a statement about the political rights of women at the 9th Congress of the International Women’s Union in Rome (1923).
Jeni Pateva took part in the events organized by the International women’s movement in Dublin (1923 ), Geneve (1929), Belgrade and Lyon (1931), Paris (1937), Rotterdam (1939 and 1940).