For over a century, International Women’s Day (IWD) has been celebrated across the globe to highlight the extraordinary achievements of ordinary women. Held annually on March 8, I used to think it was a positive day. This year, however, I just feel angry.
Although proud of the progress we’ve made, we find ourselves fighting on a new front — and in the unimaginable position of seeing hard-won rights being rolled back.
Incredibly, we’re at a point when even the word
Who is the most inspiring woman you know? She might be a teacher, a doctor, a community leader, charity worker or campaigner. She might be your friend, your colleague, your mum.
And although day in, day out, she improves the lives of others through her compassion, strength and tireless determination, she may receive little recognition for the extraordinary work she does.
Well, now is the time to change that. Because if you know an incredible woman who deserves to be
Women’s empowerment and representation have been buzzwords of late for brand campaigns – and yet one advertising organisation has claimed that ‘sneaky sexism’ is heavily on display in modern-day commercials.
We’ve all seen the vintage adverts from the ‘Mad Men’ days and laughed in disbelief at how sexist they were.
Inspired by 100 years of Women in Advertising and Communications Leadership (WACL), Channel 4’s recent Mad Women documentary contained such gems as breakfast cereals urging men to ‘train your wife’
Jenny Carruthers knows starkly the agonising death that may await her. Ten years ago, the mother of three’s partner died at home in terrible pain from terminal bone cancer. Now, Jenny has been told she, too, faces the same.
Her partner, Gypie Mayo, had enjoyed fame playing guitar with rock bands such as Dr Feelgood and The Yardbirds.
He was diagnosed first with liver cancer in 2010 when he was 60. He had surgery and chemotherapy, but in December 2012
Pharmacists should not be considered a substitute for GPs, experts claimed today amid fears ministers are glossing over the dire situation practices are facing.
Under NHS plans to free up millions of appointments with family doctors, chemists will be able to dish out contraceptive pills to women.
High street pharmacists will also get powers to hand out prescriptions for common ailments, meaning patients battling minor illnesses can bypass their GP.
The Royal College of GPs said it was ‘keen to
He has many thrones at his royal residences – but none quite like this.
And King Charles looked delighted when eco-campaigners unveiled one they had made for him out of recycled plastics today at Mombasa’s Nyali beach, on the third day of his state visit to Kenya.
Non-profit organisation Flipflopi uses everything from plastic bottles to, well, flip flops to upcycle a variety of objects into heritage products – even creating a seven-ton traditional sailing dhow made entirely from waste
Parents are putting their children in danger “without even knowing” as campaigners demand urgent law changes.
Activists are concerned about young children sitting in front-facing car seats which could put them at risk.
An online petition has called for the Government to make it a legal requirement for children under the age of four to use rear-facing seats.
The new rule would also apply to children under 18kg or under 105cm if they were over four.
In an online statement,
Victorious campaigners have celebrated on Dartmoor after winning the right to pitch their tents once again.
Campers descended on the beauty spot last night to sing, dance and play their music instruments after appeal judges overturned a controversial ban imposed earlier this year.
A High Court judge had previously ruled that a nearly 40-year-old piece of legislation did not give people the right to pitch tents overnight on Dartmoor Commons without landowners’ permission.
Alexander and Diana Darwall brought the successful
Eighteen Ukrainian climate organisations have asked the European Commission on Tuesday (25 July) to ban imports of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) and petroleum gas (LPG) in a bid to slash the country’s revenues from continued fossil fuel exports.
In 2022, the EU banned Russian crude oil shipments and coal imports following the war in Ukraine, while Russia significantly reduced the pipeline gas it supplied to Europe.
However, liquified fossil gas (LNG) shipments increased as Europe struggled to make up
It is one of the more disturbing – and memorable – depictions of psychiatric treatment in modern cinema.
Director Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 Oscar-winner, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, stars Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a criminal who fakes mental illness in order to avoid hard labour – and ends up being subjected to inhumane treatment at the hands of a vengeful nurse.
In some of the most uncomfortable-to-watch scenes, he is subjected to sessions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as
