GAY RIGHTS campaigners celebrated their inclusion for the first time yesterday in the Commonwealth People’s Forum in Malta.
British Queen Elizabeth II opened the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in the Mediterranean island nation yesterday, praising the colonial hangover.
Baroness Patricia Scotland was elected the new Commonwealth secretary-general, to take office next April.
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Women’s Declaration International conference on feminist struggles from Britain to the Far East
Activists from across the world gathered in China for an educational exchange where they witnessed the progress the country has made in building an ecological society and discussed the path to peaceful international relations, reports CALLUM NORRIS


