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She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Gender equality.

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. The Centenary Action Group has campaigned on issues ranging from increased transparency in political party candidate selections to an end to the violence and abuse of women.

Pankhurst's book, Deeds not Words: The Story Of Women's Rights Then And Now was published in February 2018.

In October 2018, she was appointed the first chancellor of the University of Suffolk in Ipswich.

At the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, Pankhurst appeared alongside her daughter, Laura. The pair have since formed a group called Olympic Suffragettes, which campaigns on a number of women's rights issues. She also leads and speaks at the annual London international women's day march.

Brought up in Ethiopia until the age of 12, the daughter of historian Richard Pankhurst, she initially had a French education studying at the Lycée Guebre-Mariam and having moved to the UK, continuing her schooling at the Lycée Charles de Gaulle before going on to the Atlantic College in Wales. She then studied at Sussex University and Vassar College, New York before gaining a PhD degree in social science from Edinburgh University. Her thesis was published by Zed Press as Gender Development and Identity: An Ethiopian Study 1992.

Helen Pankhurst CBE (born 1964) is an international development and women's rights activist and writer. Pankhurst is currently CARE International's senior advisor working in the UK and Ethiopia. Pankhurst is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, who were both leaders in the British Suffragette movement. 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.