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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Giada Zampano

Emma Bonino: Leader of abortion and divorce battles that changed Italy, dies aged 78

Italy's former Foreign Minister Emma Bonino speaks at the Trust Women conference in London November 18, 2014 - (Reuters)

Emma Bonino, who rose to prominence as a leader of campaigns by the Radical Party that legalized abortion and divorce in the 1970s in heavily Roman Catholic Italy, has died.

Bonino was famed for pushing for change against the objections of the Vatican.

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