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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

It's TODAY.

Here's THE GUARDIAN'S LIST of Inspiring women activists and campaigners:

• Franny Armstrong

  Filmmaker behind The Age of Stupid, environmental activist and founder of the 10:10 campaign

• Helen Bamber

  Founder of Amnesty International and campaigner for human rights

• Camila Batmanghelidjh

  The founder of Kid's Company, which offers practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children

• Shami Chakrabarti

  Director of Liberty, barrister and former lawyer for the Home Office

• Margaret Chan

  Director of the World Health Organisation, battling international viruses, and championing improvements in all of our most pressing diseases

• Sampat Pal Devi

  Leader of the Gulabi Gang in northern India, an all-women vigilante force

• Shirin Ebadi

  Iran's first female judge, founder of the Human Rights Defenders Centre and the first Muslim woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• Aparajita Gogoi

  Coordinator of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in India

• Lubna Hussein

  Sudanese writer and women's rights campaigner, who asked to go to trial after being arrested for wearing trousers

• Malalai Joya

  Afghan politician and human rights campaigner who has shown phenomenal
  courage

• Wangari Maathai

  The Kenyan environmental and political activist who won a Nobel Peace prize for her work with the Green Belt Movement

• Graca Machel

  Former Mozambican education minister and advocate for the rights of southern African women and children

• Somaly Mam

  Cambodian anti-sex trafficking campaigner and founder of AFESIP, rescuing women from brothels and supporting their recovery

• Fatema Mernissi

  Professor of sociology at Mohammed V University in Rabat

• Pragna Patel

  Founding member of Southall Black Sisters, a landmark organisation in the history of black and Asian feminism

• Lisa Robinson

  Civil servant who made a stand and stopped a train carriage of sexist men

• Nawal El Saadawi

  Egyptian doctor, psychiatrist, feminist, university lecturer and writer

• Zainab Salbi

  Iraqi American CEO and founder of Women for Women International

• Jasvinder Sanghera

  Director of Karma Nirvana, a charity helping victims of forced marriages and 'honour' violence

• Vandana Shiva

  Environmentalist and founder of Diverse Women for Diversity

• Marisol Valles Garcia

  The 20-year-old police chief of a Mexican border town terrorised by drugs cartels has been called Mexico's bravest woman