[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update 25th November 2008 (part 1)

[WiL Updates]

25th November 2008
International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women

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Added to women in london 21st, 24th and 25th November 2008
* Index of links to new entries: http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

Forthcoming Events:
* Events December 2008 to February 2009 : Women's Library
--- Blonde Roots: Bernardine Evaristo
--- Zine Fest! : Workshop
--- 15 years of DIVA Magazine : Evening event
--- From Miss Appleyard's Awakening to Monstrous Regiment : Drama
Workshop
* Benefit for DV services in Newham : NAADV
* Public meeting - who benefits from criminalising sex workers &
clients? : ECP

Notices and Press Releases:
* Free Legal Advice Sessions on Family and Relationship law : Enfield
Women's Centre
* Innovative Responses: New Pathways To Address Domestic Violence And
Substance Misuse Across London : GLDVP Stella Project
* Voice support for Sir Richard Tilt over lone parent benefit changes
: DCT
* Home Office Must Act on Lap Dancing Clubs : Object
* Dire news for women as the pay gap widens : Fawcett (with UNISON)

Courses:
* Parenting Skills Course : Enfield Women's Centre

Vacancies:
* Amina Scheme Support Volunteers : EAVES
* Administrative & Information Officer : GLDVP
* Advice Worker : Solace Women's Aid
* Director : Woman's Trust

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

WiL Calendars
* Women's Events 2008
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New on womensgrid http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk
(women's news and views UK and Ireland)

* 25th November 2008 is the International Day for Elimination of
Violence against Women
* Reports, reactions and re-assessments of Reclaim the Night London
2008
* Oxford women march against violence
* Victims of domestic abuse stage a 'noisy march' through Ilfracombe
* Domestic violence awareness highlighted in Rochford and Castle Point
* A campaign is being launched to raise awareness of domestic violence
and people in the North East are being encouraged to wear a white
ribbon
* Women's Aid holds domestic violence event at Dail
* One of the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre's longest-serving staff has
re-mortgaged her house to raise funds for the service
* Almost a quarter of people who attended a rape crisis centre in
Ireland in 2007 had been abused by more than one person
* An unexplained "truly shocking" rise in rape cases across Croydon
has caused serious concerns among women's groups
* The Truth Isn't Sexy - Opening and Closing - Tues 2nd Dec 1-3pm
* Female Prisoners Welfare Project / HIBISCUS: Volunteer Befrienders
(Female)
* WISH Female Mental Health Advocate and Female Community Worker (8th
December 2008)
* Ministers should rethink or delay plans to force lone parents,
disabled people and the long-term jobless to seek work, a senior
government adviser has said
* White Ribbon Campaign UK
* Not Protected - Demonstration against no recourse to public funds in
Scotland - 4th December 2008
* Domestic violence display comes to Hertfordshire - 28th November
2008
* Launch Of Million Women Rise 2009 & The Hackney Women Rise
Exhibition - 27th November 2008
* Stop Violence Against Women Week 2008 - Cambridge SU - 25th November
and other dates
* White Ribbon Day events in Wales - 24/25th November and other dates
* Anglesey supports White Ribbon Day - 25th November 2008
* How Women from Ethnic Minorities Tackle Domestic Violence - 25th
November 2008 Aberdeen
* SVAW Vigil outside the Armenian Embassy London - 25th November 2008
* Honour Crimes, Cultural Killings or just plain Murder? 25 Nov 2008 -
Leicester
* Violence against women conference - Luton 25th November 2008
* Domestic violence awareness week in Wiltshire event on 25th November
2008
* White Ribbon Day in Lewisham - 24th November 2008
* Angie Le Mar and Lealea Jones will be at the White Ribbon Day Event
in Hackney - 22nd November 2008
* Dagenham and Redbridge Football Club join the campaign to stop
domestic violence - 22nd November 2008
* London Reclaim the Night 2008
* White Ribbon Day event at Walsall Football Club
* Police are calling on "real men" across Bristol to stand up and be
clear that domestic abuse is cowardly and unacceptable
* Please Ask Your MP to Sign EDM Against New Lone Parent Benefit
Regulations
* Flexible working is a vital tool for business survival
* Police chiefs call for new measures to help prostitutes
* 'No more excuses' for men who use prostitutes, says Smith
* Human trafficking police unit to close
* Taboo of domestic violence by children
* Foyle Women's Aid helps 1,000 children and hopes for Lottery win on
25th November when public will vote by telephone
* Abortion won't be extended to Northern Ireland says Secretary of
State
* Dundalk Rape Crisis Centre is open again - Staffing crisis resolved
by HSE appointments
* Gardai keeping watch on 1,100 sex offenders
* Equality Authority Ireland: Big budget cut has badly weakened us
* Unequal pay leaves women £369,000 worse off
* Working Families and Lancaster University Management School are
awarded Lottery funding to undertake research on working fathers
* £500,000 to support women's enterprise 14/11/08
* Amnesty International UK presents Women of Liberia: Fighting for
Peace
* Free Domestic and Gender Based Violence Conference - 27th November
2008 - Haringey
* The Waves: Cardiff Feminist Forum
* Light a Candle - WRD Event - Cardiff 26th November
* Make Music. End Violence. Win £5000! (Wolverhampton 6th December
2008) proceeds to Haven Wolverhampton
* Pakistan Women's Association Harrow - musical evening 22nd November
2008

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The rest of this WiL e-update will follow tomorrow.

Deborah at women in london - post at womeninlondon.org.uk
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