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Olivia Cattan
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Olivia Cattan (born 1967) is a journalist and author. She is also a campaigner. Cattan is president of "SOS autisme France" and honorary president of the campaigning feminist organisation, "Paroles de femmes" ("Women's Words") which she established.
Olivia Cattan was born in Paris. She attended a bilingual school and studied piano at the École Normale de Musique de Paris (music conservatory) and at other institutions. She embarked on a career as lyricist-composer and formed a group with Mathieu Chédid. Her own musical career was cut short by a motor-bike accident, however. She studied Journalism and Art History at the École du Louvre and launched herself as a journalist, focusing increasingly on certain themes: art and culture, societal issues, women's rights, disability and religion. She wrote for Tribune juive and also contributed regularly to France-Soir, Paris-Match, Réforme and Témoignage chrétien.
She has participated in a number of international conferences in support of peace in the Middle-east, women's rights and at the United Nations.
Olivia Cattan founded the "Paroles de femmes" ("Women's Words") organisation in order to promote women's rights. A gala event on 7 March 2007 attracted more than 800 women from all parts of society, and was conducted in the presence of artistic and political leaders including Nicolas Sarkozy. She co-wrote two feminist works: "Deux femmes en colère" ("Two angry women", 2006) and "La femme, la République et le Bon Dieu" (loosely: "Woman, the State and the Good Lord", 2008), and contributed to further collaborative publications on feminist themes. She created a "Pacte féminin" ("Female alliance") to develop social and political measures to improve the condition of women, as well as a "Charter of the rights of women" which was signed by political representatives and a large number of media personalities. However, her priorities were more practical than symbolic.
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