“The Tampon Tax Fund has come to an end, but the work is far from over”
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Beauty
Boots is partnering with The Hygiene Bank to help tackle hygiene poverty in the UK
Brilliant news from the high street retailer.
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- Lucy Partington
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Long Reads
This is how you can help end tampon tax, once and for all
Now that we’ve left the EU, it’s time to crack on with one of the government’s most important pledges – ending tampon tax.
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- Laura Coryton
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Life
Boris Johnson’s silence on women’s rights speaks volumes about his commitment to equality
Johnson's voting record doesn't augur well for women.
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- Christobel Hastings
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Life
A book with 15 free tampons inside it has sold out for this political reason
Tampons are taxed at nearly three times the rate as books are in Germany.
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- Hollie Richardson
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- Kayleigh Dray
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These are the 10 best countries to be a woman around Europe
If you’re planning on relocating any time soon, look this way…
Life
Why are hardly any women’s charities being supported by the tampon tax?
Over 100 experts have signed an open letter arguing that women’s organisations should benefit from the tampon tax.
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- Moya Crockett
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Opinion
“India has scrapped its tampon tax. Why are we still paying it in the UK?”
The world’s ‘most dangerous country for women’ is ending taxes on sanitary products – but in the supposedly enlightened UK, we’re still being forced to pay up.
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
Female MP makes ground-breaking move by discussing her period in parliament
Scottish Labour's Danielle Rowley got real about period poverty in a revolutionary way
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- Megan Murray
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Visible Women
Women’s Daily Dispatch: The news you need to know on 3/5/18
Revelations about where your tampon tax money is going, #MeToo chaos in the Nobel Literature Prize, and more
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- Moya Crockett
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Happy Place
Finally, there's some good news about the tampon tax
Don't get too excited - it's not still not been abolished
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- Megan Murray
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Life
When will the tampon tax finally be abolished?
When you can expect to see the back of this ridiculous tax
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- Megan Murray
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- Sarah Biddlecombe
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The most inspiring moments from the #FreePeriods march
Hundreds of activists took to the streets to campaign for free period products
Life
MPs are now insisting Boots lowers the cost of emergency contraception
These politicians are as annoyed as the rest of us
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- Harriet Little
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Life
Your tampon tax is going to fund an anti-abortion charity
Your tampon tax is going to fund an anti-abortion charity
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- Susan Devaney
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Life
Another UK supermarket has agreed to pay the tampon tax for customers
Following on from Tesco’s recent announcement
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
UK supermarket becomes first to pay tampon tax for its customers
From now on, tampons, pads and other sanitary products will be 5% cheaper.
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
Surprise! Your tampon tax money is funding an anti-abortion charity
Not quite what you had in mind?
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
Family celebrate girl’s first period in a very unique way
“My family is super extra”
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- Kayleigh Dray
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- Sejal Kapadia Pocha
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At last, tampon tax set to be scrapped after EU deal
After months of petitioning, viral parody campaigns and women bleeding in front of parliament in protest...