2024 European elections: Women’s teams brace for a lurch to the precise | EUROtoday

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With EU elections now simply across the nook, ladies’s rights teams are anxiously ready to see if pollsters have been appropriate to foretell a surge in help for the far proper. At a rustic stage, events related to the far-right teams within the European Parliament have an extended historical past of looking for to erode sex-specific protections, together with entry to abortion. Haxie Meyers-Belkin speaks to Jéromine Andolfatto, a coverage and marketing campaign officer with the European Women’s Lobby.

Also, forward of the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, we hear concerning the combat to get dozens of ladies who labored alongside WWII codebreaker Alan Turing the popularity they’re due.

Plus we meet the dissident Iranian taekwondo star Kimia Alizadeh, as she prepares to go for gold for her adoptive Bulgaria within the upcoming Paris Olympics.

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