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![]() Dr. Helen Pankhurst at Broadcasting House, London during BBC 100 Women 2016 | |
Born | Helen Pankhurst 1964 (age 59–60) |
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Helen Pankhurst CBE (born 1964)[citation needed] is a British women's rights activist, scholar and writer. She is currently CARE International's senior advisor working in the UK and Ethiopia.[1][2] She is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, who were both leaders in the suffragette movement. In 2018 Pankhurst convened the Centenary Action Group, a cross-party coalition of over 100 activists, politicians and women's rights organisations campaigning to end barriers to women's political participation.[3]