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BRITISH women despaired yesterday as Chancellor George Osborne announced that the controversial tampon tax would remain and be used to pay for domestic abuse and rape counselling services.
During his spending review speech in Parliament, Mr Osborne argued he could not lower the 5 per cent rate on sanitary products because of “EU law.”
He added, however, that the government would use the £15 million a year revenue from the tax to fund women’s charities.
Women’s fight against violence and legal erosion is central to building a democratic and just Iraq, says Dr SALMA SAADAWI
Comments from Matt Goodwin and Danny Kruger expose a reactionary vision in which falling birth rates are blamed on women, says JUDITH CAZORLA
AMANDA J QUICK warns about the ever-expanding influence of the sex industry – and the harm it unleashes on both the women involved and society collectively, especially the young
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland