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Monday 8 April 2019

Kate Sheppard's role in human rights

Kate Sheppard

Who is kate Sheppard?


In 1885, Kate Sheppard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union
and, two years later she became leader of its suffrage campaign. She died
in New Zealand in 1934.


Where did Kate Sheppard come from?


Kate Sheppard came from Liverpool, England, Kate Sheppard moved to
New Zealand in the late 1860s.

What is Kate Sheppard's background?

in her early twenties and in 1871 she married a merchant called Walter
Sheppard. In 1885 she joined the WCTU, which publicly recommended
women's suffrage as a means to fight to ban liquor.

What is Kate Sheppard's interest in human rights?

Kate Sheppard continued to work at home and abroad for women's rights
from contraception to freedom from the corset. ... She died on 13 July 1934,
a year after the first woman MP, Labor's.

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