[WiL e-updates] 14th March 2008 - e-update extra - IWD events continue

[WiL Updates]

14th March 2008 - e-update extra


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International Women's Day Events still continue (see below):
* If your event hasn't been listed please send for inclusion
* If you have a report or photos of an event that has already happened
please do send or send a link to a web site where it/they can be
viewed
* Some pictures of the hugely successful Million Women March can be
seen from links listed at
http://iwd2008.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/million-women-rise-photos/ -
more links welcomed
* Send info to post at womeninlondon.org.uk
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International Women's Day blog:
* Index of all current events http://iwd2008.wordpress.com
* Index of events London
http://iwd2008.wordpress.com/index-of-events-london/
* Index of events other cities / regions
http://iwd2008.wordpress.com/index-of-events-outside-london/

New on blog since last mailing:
* Women's Films for March at the Cine Club Latin American House
* "I feel like a bird in a cage, with broken wings. I feel I am in an
open prison, though with no bars."
* Royal Association for the Deaf BME International Women's Day Event
* Meeting women from other cultures
* Women's Day: '30 years on from the Sex Discrimination Act and still
counting . when will women be equal to men?'
* Celebrating Women in Publishing
* WOZA Members Beaten in the Streets of Bulawayo on International
Women's Day
* National tour of Palestinian Women 2008
* International Women's Day Festival 2008 Kirklees
* "Dare to Dream" International Women's Day 2008 Event Northampton
* On this International Women's Day, let us resolve to unite in this
mission
* Help make a difference for Mao Hengfeng on International Women's
Day!
* What Women Have Done For Us All
* Dundee Women's Festival correction
* Million Women Rise photos
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New on womensphere http://womensphere.wordpress.com

* Southall Black Sisters - Funding Situation Update
* Abolish No Recourse to Public Funds: End Violence Against Women!
Support the Day of Action: 23 April 2008
* Challenges facing the women's liberation movement
* Combating "Honour" Based Violence Forum Annual Conference
* Study claims '4,000 forced marriages in UK every year'
* Campaign to secure funding for Rape Crisis Centres launched by the
New Statesman
* Police failings in rape cases are far worse than they admit
* £400,000 of lottery cash for domestic abuse project working with
violent men in Scotland
* Specialist courts planned to tackle domestic violence
* Family's role in domestic violence
* Traumatised South African children play 'rape me' games
* Vancouver women's groups at odds over East Side brothels
* Quarter of US teen girls have sex-related disease
* Maternity hospital is "last resort" in Sierra Leone
* HIV/AIDS in focus on Women's Day in Ghana
* Bangladesh retreats on women's rights after clerics protest
* Domestic violence endemic, but awareness slowly rising in Pakistan
* 'Corrective rape' in South African schools
* Displaced women in Kenya "still facing threat of sexual violence"
* There is need for Domestic Violence Act, say experts in Kashmir
* Stop turning a blind eye to domestic violence says Mayor of Nicosia
* Sharp rise in reported cases of violence against women in Aghanistan
* Minister leads call to end violence against women in Iraq
* Ten worst countries for women
* India not to commercialise sex work, says Renuka Chowdhury
* Women have launched a renewed campaign in Italy against a move to
overturn the right to abortion
* Campaign in China to stop domestic violence
* Senegalese President, Cabinet Ministers Sign UNIFEM's Say NO to
Violence against Women Campaign
* Small loans offer glimmer of hope to poor women: UN
* UNHCR Handbook for the Protection of Women and Girls
* Thousands of women forgotten victims of war
* Drive to boost girls' education in Egypt
* India to pay families cash to protect girls
* Service Development Manager The Wish Project
* Assistant Director (Business), Leicestershire Women's Aid
* Chief Office Women's Domestic Violence Helpline - Greater Manchester

Index of current postings at
http://womensphere.wordpress.com/index-to-current-postings/
Subscribe:
http://womensphere.wordpress.com/subscribe-to-receive-blog-via-email/
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Women in London

* will be updated at the start of next week
* apologises that technical hitches meant last weeks e-update arrived
late in the day - but an earlier emailing to around 3,000 additional
women did go out successfully to tell women about the many IWD events
we had listed - thanks to everyone who sent information.

Deborah at women in london
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