[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update Friday 24th April 2009 (15)

[WiL Updates]

24th April 2009


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Information added to Women in London 20th and 22nd April 2009
* Index of links to new entries: http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

Events
* Eliminating violence against women - rhetoric or reality? FREE
Seminar various cities ROW
* Violence against women - what's the policy? FREE Seminar ROW
* Violence against women - what's the strategy? FREE Seminar ROW
* No recourse to public funds - where's the policy? FREE seminar ROW
* National Strategy Meeting to Oppose Immigration Controls - Feminist
Fightback 9th and 20th May
* WILPF Birthday Bash Friday 24th April

Notices
* National Violence Against Women Strategy - Meeting the needs of
women offenders and ex-offenders Women in Prison
* Rights of Women services are available to women across London
* Rights of Women advice line eg domestic violence, divorce, child
contact
* Rights of Women sexual violence advice line
* Amnesty International Women's Action Network April Update
* Spring Newsletter Refuge
* Account3 is moving back to Birkbeck Street

Training
* Free Courses For Unemployed Women in 5 Host Boroughs - WAMT
* Basic Mental Health Awareness Training for Domestic Violence
Workers - GLDVP - 6th May
* GLDVP Training Programme July to December 2009 programme is now
available
* Courses in London - Rights of Women - May to November 2009
* ROW courses in other regions - June to Novmeber 2009

Vacancies
* 2 vacancies - Eaves - 8th and 15th May 2009
* Community Team Leader - DVIP - 4th May 2009
* Head of Service Delivery - DVIP - 4th May 2009

WiL Calendars
* Will be updated in the next 24 hours - hopefully!
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New on Women's Training and Funding (WiLT)

* 18th April 2009: Workshop for Young African Women 18-25: Campaigning
for Change! Please Circulate
* Exit Strategies & Demand Reduction: Balancing prostitution policy in
Britain
* Domestic Violence and the Arts 2
* Places still available for Information day 20th April - BIHR poverty
project
* NCIA newsletter
* Sheila McKechnie Awards 2009! APPLY NOW!
* Voice4Change England e-alert 17th April
* DV in Gypsy and Traveller Communities - 8th May - London
* REAP Workshop: Working with Asylum Seekers and Refguees 2009
* Eliminating VAW - rhetoric or reality? FREE tomorrow London 23rd
Cardiff 5 May Manchester
* Seminar: Coping with Loss caused through violence in the Community.
* INVITE: Women CEO's Special Interest Group Meeting
* Alcohol Education and Research Grants - various with different
deadlines
* Hilden Charitable Fund - Summer Playschemes - 9th May 2009
* Summer activities grants for children in refuges and young carers -
8th May 2009
* Freemasons' Grand Charity - Non-Masonic Grants - 31 May 2009
* Free Courses for unemployed women in the 5 Olympic Host Boroughs
* Tackling Sexual Violence - Prevention, Prosecution and
Rehabilitation - Thursday 18th June 2009  WiL Admin

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New on womensgrid http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk
(women's news and views UK and Ireland)

* Cambridge Reclaim The Night 3rd May
* John Worboys' jail term condemned by government adviser
* 'Moral line crossed' as parents jam phones with morning-after pill
complaints
* Archbishop condemns pregnancy ads
* Compulsory audits on equal pay will force firms to give women more
* Budget failing women
* Feminist research project - an update
* Welsh Women's Aid organises focus groups to contribute to Government
consultation on violence against women
* Vacancies posted on womensgrid
* 2 vacancies - Wales Women's National Coalition - 18th May 2009
* Volunteer Coordinator (Female Only) - Survive
* Women's Research Dissemination Worker - 11th May 2009
* Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mary
Wollstonecraft, "The Mother of Feminism"!
* Boris 'betrayal' as he breaks his promise on rape crisis centres for
London
* London Mayor consults on violence against women - contributions by
20th July 2009
* Lurking in the shadows - young children killed by their stepfather
or their mother's boyfriend
* One-stop shop for domestic abuse victims in Gravesend
* Local support for Hackney residents experiencing domestic violence
and hate crime
* 2 Project Officers - Routes to Solidarity Project - Oxfam - 10th May
2009
* Domestic Violence/Immigration Advocate - Southall Black Sisters -
29th April
* Research Consultancy Opportunity - CAWN - 14th May 2009
* women's asylum news - april - articles included
* Traumatised Rape Survivor Sent Back to Uganda
* 62% rise in rape victims at Dublin sex assault unit this year
* Time To Take Action - Rape Crisis (England & Wales)
* New measures to improve the investigation and prosecution of rape
and to provide support to victims
* Save Lambeth Women's Project!
* Wise Woman Weekend 8-10th May 2009 Leitrim, Ireland
* The New Literary Front: Reading the Girls of Riyadh - Gender
Institute Research Seminar - 28th April 2009
* SMK launches 2009 Awards include Women Creating Change (30th June
2009)
* Feminist Review - Religion and Spirituality Issue: CALL FOR PAPERS
* Europe and Saudi Arabia Active Students Partnership
* The Women's Budget Group needs YOU!!
* Programme Co-ordinator - Women's Aid Advice Centre Nottingham - 29th
April 2009
* Senior Support Worker (Female) x 2 - Ashiana Sheffield - 30th April
2009
* Southall Black Sisters - 3 Vacancies - 29th April 2009
* Diversion Scheme Worker - Safe Exit Toynbee Hall - 13th May 2009
* Index to postings - March 2009
* Index to postings - February 2009
* Index to postings - January 2009
* Information added to Women in London up to 9th April 2009

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