[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update Wednesday 19th August 2009 (29 - 2 of 2)

[WiL Updates]

19th August 2009 - part 2 of 2


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Information added to women in london 19th August 2009
* Index of new information at http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

Training
* Training Courses - Woman's Trust - October 2009

Info Added
* Index of information added in June 2009 - archived
* Index of information added in May 2009 - archived

Helplines
* Helplines updated with new National Rape Crisis Helpline details
* Please let us know if any of these contacts are not up to date - many thanks

WiL Calendars
* Events Calendar
* Training Calendar
* Funding Calendar
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New on Women's Training and Funding (WiLT)

* Recent training listed on Women in London
* Charity Commission - Public Consultation - Single Equallity Scheme - Closes
9th October 2009
* Should volunteering be a fast track to citizenship - Home Office consultation
closes 26 Oct 09
* Fw: AbilityNet New Training Courses
* Young Offenders Programme - apply by 25th September 2009
* Community Programme - existing work - no deadline
* Fw: London Development Agency Community Grants Programme - 14 Sept 2009
* Fw: Rumours of the End of Exempt Accommodation?
* Fw: Commission consultation opens on gender pay gap reporting
* Fw: Voice4Change England e-alert 17th August
* Fw: AbilityNet Training Courses
http://freecharity.org.uk/pipermail/womeninlondontraining/2009-August/date.html

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

* Mobile phone operators asked to 'hang up on prostitution'
* Feminist Theory & Activism in Global Perspective 26 Sept London - free
* 3 vacancies - Sandwell Women's Aid - closing date not known

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New on womensphere http://womensphere.wordpress.com
(international women's news and views)

* Aung San Suu Kyi, alone but unbowed
* Indigenous Mexican woman accused of kidnapping six agents named Amnesty
prisoner of conscience
* Violence and conservatism threaten Afghan women's vote
* UNIFEM Currents - August 2009
* Women in the News - The New IPS Gender Wire - 11th August 2009
* New High Court ruling will help domestic violence victims in India
* Women at risk of HIV infection from partners UN warns
* Trafficked women face high HIV infection risk according to study
* Kenyan mothers too poor to pay for treatment locked up in hospital
* Delhi female births rise hailed
* Midwives defy tradition and save lives in Afghanistan
* Safe Shortcut to Sidestep Illegal Abortion in Argentina
* Abortion pill rules loosened at clinics in Australia
* 229,000 Nepali women receive abortion services
* National Women's Day South Africa - 9th August
* Senegal opens up on growing problem of child rape
* Bahamas bid to outlaw marital rape stokes debate
* Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights
* Hillary Clinton demands arrests over Congo sexual violence
* UN envoy urges African states to stiffen laws on preventing rape
* UNIFEM Currents - August 2009
* Women in the News - The New IPS Gender Wire - 4th August 2009
* Magna Carta of Women finally a law in the Philippines
* Threats of violence greet new family code in Mali
* Indian Muslim clerics oppose Law Commission's report on bigamy
* First South East Asia Court of Women on HIV and Human Trafficking held in Bali
* Pakistan moves to outlaw domestic violence
* Women's groups in India demand action against virginity tests

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