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| Full Name: | Organization of Mozambican Women |
| Native Name: | Organização da Mulher Moçambicana |
| Native Name Lang: | pt |
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| Leader Title: | Secretary General |
| Leader Name: | Mariazinha Niquice[1] |
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The Organization of Mozambican Women (OMM) is the women's section of FRELIMO. Founded in 1973, during the Mozambican War of Independence, in recognition of women's growing roles in the conflict against Portuguese colonialism, the OMM was created as a non-military structure to promote women's education, emancipation and mobilization.[2] [3] Following independence in 1975, the OMM focussed on issues related to women's education, ethnic division, divorce, family planning, adultery and promiscuity, prostitution, and alcoholism. In 1990, the OMM voted to separate from FRELIMO, although shortly thereafter, the organization re-affiliated.[4]
Women's participation in the armed struggle against Portuguese colonialism beginning in the 1960s has been described as "massive" and led to the formation of a women's detachment, Destacamento Feminino, in the People's Forces for the Liberation of Mozambique in 1967.[5] [6]