![]() She began her studies in French, at the Lycée Guebre-Mariam in Addis Ababa. Helen has one sibling, Alula Pankhurst, like both their parents a scholar of Ethiopia. Helen's mother was Rita Eldon Pankhurst, academic and activist. Her paternal grandfather was Silvio Corio, an Italian chef and anarchist. He and his mother Sylvia Pankhurst, the former suffragette, had settled in that country in the 1950s. Helen Pankhurst was brought up in Ethiopia until the age of 12, the daughter of historian Richard Pankhurst. In 2018 Pankhurst convened the Centenary Action Group, a cross-party coalition of over 100 activists, politicians and women's rights organisations campaigning to end barriers to women's political participation. She is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, who were both leaders in the suffragette movement. ![]() She is currently CARE International's senior advisor working in the UK and Ethiopia. Helen Pankhurst CBE (born 1964) is a British women's rights activist, scholar and writer. ![]() ![]()
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