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WOMEN must not be cast aside while “middle-aged men with the same surname” lead the EU referendum debate, civil liberties campaigner Shami Chakrabarti warned yesterday.
The outgoing director of campaign group Liberty said it was important to ensure that discussions were not “dominated by people who are too much the same.”
Ms Chakrabarti singled out two male politicians on opposing sides of the debate, Boris Johnson and Alan Johnson, to make her point.
Afghan women living under the Taliban are navigating a system that makes their public existence conditional on male approval, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
SIMON PARSONS applauds an artist who rescues and rehumanises stories of women, the victims of violence, from a feminist perspective
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Women’s Declaration International conference on feminist struggles from Britain to the Far East