Maxine Peake tells the story of how Dame Ethel Smyth’s anthem for equality, March of the Women, propelled the Suffragettes to victory, despite her arrest and imprisonment. Maxine Peake tells the story ...

Lady Rhondda was an influential part of the woman's suffrage movement ... However she was released after five days due to a hunger strike. Newport's link with the Chartist movement is well ...

THE campaign for the right of women to vote is ... the audience included many suffrage supporters from the non-militant branches in the movement. There was great interest in what Mrs Pankhurst might ...

While the British Imperial government did its best to look after Europeans fleeing the Japanese advance, the Indians, men, women and children ... In February Gandhi, still in prison, began a hunger ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

A prominent opposition figure in Uganda who is on trial in a military tribunal has begun a hunger strike, his wife said, two ...

After 19 hours, the students of Jahangirnagar University (JU), who were on a hunger strike demanding the abolition of the ward quota, suspended their protest following an assurance from the ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks. By Jennifer Schuessler The end of a ...

The two-day hunger strike by three women make-up artistes, who are members of the All Kerala Cine Makeup Artists and Hairstylists (AKCMH) affiliated to the Film Employees Federation of Kerala ...

Family members of 32 Sosma detainees have ended a hunger strike, but the detainees will carry on, an activist said today. Azura Nasron of the Suaram human rights group told FMT the hunger strike ...

Dibrugarh: Contractual teachers from two tea garden primary schools in Tinsukia district jointly launched an indefinite hunger strike at Hokongori Tea Estate in Doomdooma from 7 am on Sunday to ...