# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-neto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:46:29.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-neto"
name: "Ruth Neto"
slug: "ruth-neto"
description: "Maria Ruth da Silva Chela Neto is a former Angolan independence activist, political organizer, and women's rights campaigner. Although she studied nursing in Portugal and Germany, in 1968 she joined the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola and focused on securing Angola's independence from Portugal. Fearing retaliation from the Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado, she lived abroad in Germany, Tanzania and Zambia until 1975, when independence was achieved. From the early 1970s, she was the leader of the Organização das Mulheres de Angola and became the organization's first national coordinator in 1976. OMA was an affiliate of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) and from 1976 she served as a vice president on their executive committee and attended and spoke at many of the organization's conferences and seminars over the next decades. In 1977, she was elected to the Central Committee of the MPLA, and was re-elected in 1985. When the leadership of the OMA was restructured in 1983, she served as its secretary general until 1999. In 1986, she became the secretary general of the Pan-African Women's Organization and held that post until 1997."
tagline: "Angolan independence activist"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-08-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.940173333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ruth Neto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Neto"
    title: "Ruth Neto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Neto"
    title: "Ruth Neto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Neto"
    title: "Ruth Neto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Neto"
    title: "Ruth Neto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Neto"
    title: "Ruth Neto"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Neto"
    title: "Ruth Neto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124246630"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump