CCP has a new petition.
Put a statue of a suffragette in Parliament Square to mark 100 years of female suffrage
Caroline Criado-Perez London, United Kingdom
Why Parliament Square?
… Read the restThere are eleven statues in Parliament Square. Not a single one is of a woman.
There are some great men honoured, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi among them. These are men who fought hard for their democratic and human rights and they deserve to be recognised.
But today is International Women’s Day. And I find myself thinking of others who fought hard for their democratic and human rights. I find myself thinking of the women who defied convention and police batons. Who went out on the streets. Who faced ridicule, imprisonment,