Belgian League for the Rights of Women

The Belgian League for the Rights of Women (French: Ligue belge du droit des femmes) was a political association founded in Belgium in 1892.

Based on the French Ligue française pour le droit des femmes, it immediately attracted 300 members.

The League experienced internal difficulties in the late 1890s when Isabelle Gatti encouraged a number of members to give political support to the socialists while Popelin continued to pursue an apolitical approach.

[1] In the early 20th century, the League was successful in obtaining the right for shop assistants to sit down in the absence of clients, in limiting requirements for them to work at night, and in preventing actions inciting them into debauchery and prostitution.

It was only at the Congrès Féministe International held in Brussels in April 1912 that the League adopted voting rights for women as its top priority.