[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update 2nd June 2008

[WiL Updates]

2nd June 2008


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Information added to women in london 30th and 31st May 2008
* Index of links to new entries: http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

Group Listing:
* Women and Girls Network is now part of the directory (welcome!)

Forthcoming Events:
* Stop Lap Dancing Clubs being licensed as coffee shops : Object
* Empowering Women for Peace and Democracy 2nd Event : WAFE
* The Women's Programme for Acquisitive Crime : 44 Portland Place
(YWCA Central Club)

Notices and Press Releases:
* Child Protection Damages Public Health : AIMS
* Flexible working reforms welcomed : Daycare Trust
* Comments on the Walsh Review : Fawcett
* Findings on childcare and BME families released : Daycare Trust
* Tokenism rife for ethnic minority women leaders : Fawcett
* Time limit vote - decisive pro-choice win : Abortion Rights
* Comments on Law Society survey : Fawcett

Courses:
* Free Open Day, Construction Taster, Door Security Course : WINTO

Vacancies:
* Office Manager : Women and Girls Network
* Full Time Child Support Worker : NAWP
* London Childcare Project Co-ordinator : DCT
* Information Manager : DCT
* Community Outreach Worker : Forward
* Finance and Admin Manager : Forward
* Youth Programme Coordinator : Forward
* Africa Programme Manager : Forward

womensgrid local women's news, views, etc..
* Index of current womensgrid postings
* RSS feed of most recent womensgrid postings
* index of may womensgrid postings completed

womensphere international women's news, views, etc..
* Index of current womensphere postings
* RSS feed of most recent womensphere postings
* index of may womensphere postings completed

WiL Calendars
* Women's Events 2008
* Women's Funding and Consultation Deadlines 2008
* Women's Training and Courses Dates 2008
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New on Women's Training and Funding (WiLT)
http://freecharity.org.uk/pipermail/womeninlondontraining/2008-May/date.html

* DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS WORKSHOP FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS (to
African women)
* Tackling the Trafficking of Women and Children
* Updated Invitation: Westminster Briefing - Supporting Female Victims
of Crime: Improving Services for Women Affected by Domestic Violence
and Rape (19th June 2008)
* You Are Invited To The African & Caribbean Women's Leadership
Conference On Thursday 26th June 2008 starts at 6pm-9pm
* DSC May - pitfalls of taking government money - and - Do politicians
understand?
* Local organisations are unhappy with ChangeUp, survey reveals
* Government ditches plans to tax expenses for volunteers
* London Councils is seeking applications to deliver services to
tackle child poverty - deadline 11 July noon
* Cohesion Guidance to Funders (grants to single issue groups) closes
this evening
* Survey of projects supporting equalities community groups
* Challenging Conception Workshops in Wiltshire - Pink Parents
* Access-IT Awards 2008
* SEARCH FOR UK'S CHARITY HERO - £30,000 PRIZE
* NEW Grant-Funded Training for Carers
* New ESOL Course
* Independent Action Coalition our latest newsletter
* A Cumberland Lodge Conference entitled: Trumpeting the Voluntary

Or subscribe to e-group at
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New on womensgrid http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk
(local women's news and views)

* Reclaim The Night - Southport - 14 June 2008
* Re-advertised Job Vacancy - Joint Coordinator (5th July)
* Government Press Releases in May re Sex buyers, Early abortions,
Female offenders
* Government Press Releases in May re Women, Equality and Work
* Government Press Releases in May re Child Abuse
* The Next Women's Liberation - Evolving Women's Consciousness (21st
June)
* A chat show featuring former boxer Mike Tyson has been cancelled
after protests from politicians and women's groups
* Inivite to Planning Meeting for Feminist Event in Autumn, Sat 31st
May, London
* EHRC equality scheme - we want your comments
* Views sought on domestic violence special facilities in family
courts - closes 17th June 2008
* The Service Needs of Domestic and Sexual Violence Victims Project
Survey
* Hitting Home a play about domestic Violence 4th-6th June 2008
* Carers Week 9-15 June 2008
* Nursing and Midwifery Council - Equality and diversity group
(patients and public) 5th June 2008
* African & Caribbean Women's Leadership Conference On Thursday 26th
June 2008
* Not quite the Guest Stars - Jazz on a Midsummers Night Sat June 21st
Chats Palace
* Next Feminist Activist Forum Meeting Saturday 7th June
* Forthcoming Feminist Events @ Housmans
* Male Mediocrity: a danger to the world?
* EVAW Campaign Intern (4th June)
* Exciting Job Opportunity for Bengali speaking women (13th June)
* Can you contribute towards the lives of 21st century women? WNC
Commissioners (10th June)
* Job Vacancy Women's Holiday Centre (25th May)
* Anti-Playboy protest Sat 24 May 2008
* Demand justice for the Tiananmen Mothers - 4th June 2008
* The Red Ladies Are On Their Way - to Oxford, London (and Portugal)
* The Society Of Women Writers & Journalists Symposium
* BME Business Women's Network Meeting
* Latin American Women's Rights Service Charity Fundraising Event -
24th May
* MPs reject cut in abortion limit
* MPs reject need for father in IVF
* Majority of women support 24 week time limit
* Abortion: articles, opinions, demonstration
* Survival rates for babies born before the current 24-week legal
limit for abortion have not improved
* Why the status quo must be maintained says BPAS CE
* Abortion costs 'put women in debt' from Northern Ireland
* Churches urge Northern Ireland role on abortion laws
* Concern at sex assaults on immigrants in Dublin
* Domestic violence charity under threat in West Sussex
* Buy and Asda t-shirt and / or run the Bristol half marathon for
Women's Aid
* A fundraising event has collected thousands of pounds to help women
in crisis in the Welsh capital
* Britain gets first south Asian female lord mayor
* URGENT: Iranian women's rights defenders sentenced to flogging and
imprisonment

Index of current postings at
http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?page_id=28
Subscribe: http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?page_id=11
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New on womensphere http://womensphere.wordpress.com
(international women's news and views)

* Accept polygamy and be patient with your husband says Malaysian MP
* How Cell Phones Have Fuelled a Frenzy of "Honour" Killings in Iraq
* Women children and domestic violence in the Solomon Islands
* Protest march highlights gender violence in South Africa
* Domestic violence cases up by a quarter in Cyprus
* Domestic violence victims left homeless in South Australia
* The voice of justice on rape hearings in New Zealand
* Rape accusations against St Vincent and the Grenadines PM dismissed
* Clients of prostitutes in the Netherlands may soon need to check for
a sex licence
* Czech municipalities want to 'legalise' prostitution but Government
says bill a long way off
* Sex workers get life insurance in India
* Prostitution rife in north Afghanistan but under wraps
* Sex tourism and US troops turning Northern Marianas into human
trafficking hotspot
* Sexual abuse of children by aid workers and UN peacekeepers too
often unreported
* Reminder - women's news from the UK and Ireland now on womensgrid
* Women in Fiji plan CEDAW report
* Women face tougher impact from climate change - Wangari Maathai
* Women's Groups Push for Gender-Sensitive Budgets
* Women run banks are breaking the poverty cycle in Africa
* Disabled Women in Ghana Call for Better Medical Care
* Women's Groups in Ghana Meet Liberian Women Refugee
* "Our daughters have no future" Central African Republic (CAR)
* Women in Malawi demand action on their rights
* Women's right coordinator Action Aid International (AAI) condemned
the marginalizing of African Women
* We Must Choose Life - a book on Aids and violence against Namibian
women and children
* Coalition in Addis Ababa reports success in fighting harmful
traditional practices
* Tackling low condom use dramatically in Swaziland
* Safe abortion steps elude rural women in India
* Kenya activists launch campaign to ease abortion laws
* Justice not working for rape victims in Mauritania
* Rights group says Uganda rebels continue to rape, pillage
* 90% of Rape Victims Living with Fistula in Liberia
* United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and Liberian Government
Launch Anti Rape Campaign
* UN opens inquiry into peacekeeper sex abuse charges in DRC
* Painful Reality of Rape in Marriage in Mauritius
* Justice Not Working for Rape Victims in Mauritania
* Punjab police lock up rape victim for semi-nude protest
* Alarming rise in rape of minors shown by police data in Mumbai
* Rape victims who were drunk perceived as more responsible - Canadian
study
* Anonymous rape tests are going nationwide in the US
* Teenage girls in the US still experience harassment
* Barbados Approves Protocol on Domestic Violence - current data
collection systems inadequate
* Constitutional Court rules that harsher sentences for male domestic
violence are legal in Spain
* Fight Against Domestic Violence in Spain only Strong on Paper
* In the US family courts traumatize battered women and hand custody
to their abusers 37 percent of the time
* New legislation could expand the definition of trafficking to treat
many sex workers as crime victims instead of criminals
* Men would stop using prostitutes if they thought they might be
caught and prosecuted say 90% of men interviewed
* Women in Barbados are being encouraged to assume the responsibility
their male partners are rejecting
* Dominican Republic's MIR foundation receives Women Together Award
* Guatemala Approves a Law to Stop Femicide and Violence Against Women
* Brides against domestic violence in Romania
* 5% increase in incidents of domestic violence in Cyprus
* Turkey grapples with domestic violence
* Islam Does Not Condone Domestic Violence says forum in Riyadh
* HIV Aids a Cash Cow for NGOs in Namibia say activists
* Hidden in the Mealie Meal: Gender-based Abuses and Women's HIV
Treatment in Zambia
* Lesbian pupils in South Africa still at risk of 'corrective rape'
* Rape homicides of women over 13 in SA higher that all female murders
in US

Index of current postings at
http://womensphere.wordpress.com/index-to-current-postings/
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