Josephine Burns de Bono

Josephine Burns de Bono née Burns (1908 – 1996) yar gwagwarmayar siyasa ce ta Maltese kuma mai son mata. 

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
An haife ta ga Hugh Burns da Laura Rosina Ada Agius, kuma 'yar'uwar 'yar jarida Hugh Burns na Times of Malta. Ta yi aure a cikin 1931 ga likita Joseph Edward de Bono, kuma ta zama mahaifiyar Edward de Bono (1933 – 2021), farfesa a Jami'ar Cambridge. [1] Ta kasance mai aiki a matsayin ɗan jarida a London a cikin 1920s, kuma daga baya ta yi aiki a Times of Malta.

Ta kasance co-kafa kungiyar Mata na Malta a 1944, kuma ta kasance shugabar kungiyar tun daga tushe a 1944, har zuwa lokacin da aka gabatar da zaben mata a 1947. Ta taka muhimmiyar rawa a fafutuka na gabatar da zaben mata a Malta.  Ta rubuta: "Haƙƙin mata na zaɓe da tsayawa a matsayin 'yan takara na majalisar dokoki an amince da su bisa doka a Ingila da Amurka a sakamakon kyakkyawan aikin mata a lokacin yakin basasa na 1914-1918. Yau bayan kusan shekaru hudu da rabi na yaki, mata a Malta sun kasance masu sane cewa sun sami irin wannan amincewar jama'a". 

An shigar da kuri'un mata da 'yancin zaɓe a matsayin siyasa a cikin Kundin Tsarin Mulki na MacMichael, wanda a ƙarshe aka gabatar da shi a ranar 5 ga Satumba 1947. Bayan amincewar garambawul a majalisar, Josephine Burns de Bono ta yi murabus daga mukaminta na shugabar kungiyar mata ta Malta tare da bayyana cewa an cimma manufar kungiyar a yanzu. 

An buga wasiƙar murabus ɗinta a cikin Times of Malta a ranar 24 ga Satumba 1947:

 "... Ya kasance wahayi ne don yin aiki tare da ku, kuma ƙungiyarmu don kyakkyawar manufa, buɗe kofofin rayuwar jama'a ga matan Malta, an nuna alamar nasara a ƙarƙashin nufin sama ... Ta hanyar haɗin gwiwar abokanmu a kowane fanni na rayuwa, kuma ta hanyar goyon bayan Jam'iyyar Labour da GWU a cikin Majalisar. Muryar karshe ta kasance, kamar yadda Sir Harold MacMichael ya lura, babu wani bayanin da ba a yarda da shi ba daga Majalisar da ta koma ga Babban Dalilin ... Na yi imanin cewa kungiyar ta cimma abubuwan da aka shimfida a cikin kundinta na asali, kuma kasar za ta iya zama mafi kyawun aiki ta hanyar hadin gwiwa tsakanin maza da mata a kowane fanni na rayuwar jama'a".  

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1996
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