Boris Johnson’s silence on women’s rights speaks volumes about his commitment to equality
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Why the government’s pledge to end period poverty is so vitally important
“Together we have secured a change that a few years ago seemed inconceivable: a solution to period poverty”
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- Laura Coryton
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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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- Megan Murray
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Finally, there's some good news about the tampon tax
Don't get too excited - it's not still not been abolished
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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Beauty
7 great ways to help make hygiene poverty a thing of the past
Supporting these initiatives means less women will face hygiene poverty in the UK
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- Ava Welsing-Kitcher
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People
The most inspiring moments from the #FreePeriods march
Hundreds of activists took to the streets to campaign for free period products
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- Sarah Biddlecombe
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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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- Moya Crockett
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UK supermarket becomes first to pay tampon tax for its customers
From now on, tampons, pads and other sanitary products will be 5% cheaper.
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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Beauty
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...
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- Sejal Kapadia Pocha
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