On the centenary of 1918 suffrage act,we update you on activities around the country, and discuss current goals for women’s rights 12.39pm GMTA collection of rare suffragette posters are being displayed to mark the anniversary of women winning the correct to vote. The choice of posters, and one of the largest surviving collections,were put on point to to the public at Cambridge University Library. Here are a few of them. 12.25pm GMTAmika George is an 18-year-conventional student from North London. She started the #FreePeriods campaign, which calls on the government to give free menstrual products to children from low-income familiesToday, and I stand proud and strong as a woman. This week,I’ve shuddered as I read agonising accounts of the struggles, the violence and the pain that the suffragettes endured for a decade to allow women today the opportunity to stand equal with men in society. final year, and I started the #FreePeriods campaign because children are missing school in the UK because they can’t afford menstrual products. In many countries across the globe,the shame and stigma of menstruation forces girls to drop out of school altogether.
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Source: guardian.co.uk