Documentation Centre and Archives on Feminism, Equal Opportunities and Women's Studies
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Lily Boeykens (° 21 March 1930) is certainly one of the foremost Flemish feminists in recent history. Ever since the beginning of the seventies, she has been one of the most important people within the second feminist wave in Belgium, and even today she remains an active member of the women's movement.
Lily Boeykens can rely on a vast experience. Back in 1964, she backed the creation of a Flemish section within the National Women's Council which, at that time, was only French-speaking. Later, as the two sections gained full autonomy, she became president of the Dutch-speaking Women's Council, remaining in this position until 1992.
Lily Boeykens is also among the founding members of the VOK (Women's Consultative Body). The first Women's Day, which was attended by well-known feminists such as Simone de Beauvoir and Germaine Greer, was generated to a large extent through her personal involvement. In the late seventies and the beginning of the eighties, Lily Boeykens also co-founded many PAG's (Pluralistic Action Groups for Equal Opportunities between Men and Women) and maintained close ties with the Dolle Mina groups in Flanders.
Over the years, Lily Boeykens has also been very active on the international scene. Thus, since the beginning of the seventies, she has kept close ties with many feminists and women's movements from around the world, resulting, for example, in the organisation of the 1976 International Tribunal of Crimes Against Women in Brussels.
In 1988, Lily Boeykens became president of the International Women's Council, a position for which she was re-elected twice, and which she held until 1994. In 1995, she became the Belgian representative to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of the United Nations.
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