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The annual event takes place on 8 March

These letters appear in the 8th March 2016 edition of The Independent

There is a significant risk to making the proposal for centralised asylum for refugees in the lead up to the EU referendum

There are at least 20 mammals in Shingle Street, from otters to pygmy shrews

She's tried guilt-inducing on-stage soliloquies. Then came deploying transatlantic legal teams

Agree or disagree with George Osborne he is better placed than Boris Johnson to become Conservative party leader

Whatever you may think about the editorial decision that led to the appearance of a mummified corpse on last week's front page, at least we have the freedom to make that choice, unlike the Turkish press at this time

We asked women why they won't be marching under the feminist banner on International Women's Day 2016

Friday's assault on Zaman's offices followed the same pattern as October's police raid on the offices of the Koza Ipek Media Group, which owned two newspapers and two TV stations. The court-appointed trustees have just closed both the TV stations and the newspapers

Last week, we had three patients who deteriorated requiring ITU; I cried twice during lunch; I had relatives twice cry on my shoulder in the corridor; and I managed to avoid urinating for 12 hours through lack of time

Everyone insists that the Labour leader doesn't have widespread appeal, but what I saw in Aberdare contradicts that entirely

You could be forgiven for thinking that women don't exist in any other form than mum or mum-in-waiting. In the film world, recent research showed 58 per cent of roles for women revolve around their position in the home as wife or mother

As a former Lib Dem MP, I know that the EU we have now is not the one we fought for

If we were to eradicate death from cancer, life expectancy would rise by less than four years. Yet the difference in life expectancy between the richest and poorest in Britain is around 20 years

I was a boy, raped by a man - but the dominant narrative around sexual assault says it's usually the victim's fault, whoever they are

The man who wants to lead us out of the EU had his chance in the Sunday swivel chair

When chancellors add pennies on to the price of tobacco or alcohol at Budget time, we don't see big falls in the public's consumption of such items

This crisis is going to run and run

Give us a break!

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