[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update Sundday 19th July 2009 (26)

[WiL Updates]

19th July 2009


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Please note - last chance:
* "The Way Forward" - consultation on Mayor's Violence Against Women strategy
closes Monday 20th July 2009 - http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?p=2353
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Information added to women in london 14th, 16th and 18th July 2009

Notices
* New National Freephone Rape Helpline from 1st August 2009 - RASASC
* Being a mum has 'devastating' impact on earnings - new report - Fawcett
* The GLDVP response to: The Way Forward - A call for action to end violence
against women
* Forward Launches new e-newsletter
* Women's Action Newsletter - July 2009
* GLDVP Newsletter - July 2009

Events
* Masked Parade of sex workers & supporters thanking the community for helping
to keep women safe - ECP
* Public investment in childcare : who cares, who pays? - Daycare Trust - 17th
November 2009 - early bird bookings until 31st July
* Feminism in London - conference organised by London Feminist Network - 10th
October 2009

Training
* GLDVP Stella Project advanced training for experienced workers - 6th August
and 8th September 2009

Vacancies
* 2 vacancies - Greenwich Women's Aid - 13th July 2009 extended to 20th July
2009
* 2 vacancies - Eaves - 17th and 22nd July 2009
* 4 vacancies - Refuge - 28th July 2009
* Volunteer Co-ordinator - Jewish Women's Aid - 10th August 2009
* Female Community Outreach Officer - Kiran - 14th August 2009
Calendars
* will be updated on Monday 20th July
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New on Women's Training and Funding (WiLT)

* Survey of need for FREE personal safety training
* NAVCA survey shows LAAs failing to fully engage the third sector
* Fw: The First - Hello UK Programme
* Fw: City Parochial Foundation (CPF) Feedback Survey 2009
* Fw: Closes 13 July - VAW stakeholder confidence and satisfaction survey 2009
* Fw: July/August 2009 Empowerment Bulletin
* Forced Marriage Unit Domestic Programme Fund - Bids by 31st July 2009
* Fw: London Development Agency launches second round of Community Grants
Programme
* Fw: Voice4Change England e-alert 10th July
* Fw: Networking with a Difference -- Luton Council, 17th July @ 6.30pm -- Free
event about becoming a Councillor
* Fw: The GLDVP response to: The Way Forward - A call for action to end violence
against women
* Fw: NCIA Newsletter No: 12 - July 2009
http://freecharity.org.uk/pipermail/womeninlondontraining/2009-July/date.html

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

*Sense of Self - A weekly support group for women focusing on enhancing
self-esteem and self-confidence! 20th July 2009
*Dogs Trust seeks dog foster carers to help women fleeing domestic violence
*Soroptimists give £500,000 and three houses to charity in Gravesend
*A report into the death of Baby P has revealed that only half of NHS staff have
the required levels of training in child protection
*One in four in custody in Glasgow held for domestic abuse
*Royal Assent for Sexual Offences Bill Scotland
*Unionists and nationalists have joined forces to round on English politicians
who called for abortion laws to be extended to Northern Ireland
*Human rights court will hear Irish abortion ban case
*Teenagers who are raped leave school at earlier age study in Ireland finds
*Two boys who raped a 14-year-old for insulting their gang leader's partner have
had their sentences upheld
*A man cleared of rape after serving two years in jail has renewed a bid for
£300,000 in damages from his accuser
*Sex and Age Discrimination news stories
*Family Outreach Worker - Lambeth Women's Aid - 21st August 2009
*Project Co-ordinator - Lambeth Women's Aid - 28th July 2009
*Project Worker - Female Prisoners Welfare Project/Hibiscus - 30th July 2009
*Natalya Estemirova
*A Woman of Substance Award - nominations close 31st July 2009
*Art Exhibition & Panel Discussion - Women in Conflict - 31st July and 1st
August 2009
*Public Meeting: Margaret Prescod - Tell us about Obama, about US policy in
Haiti & Honduras .
*Disproportionate number of children who are killed came from homes with
domestic violence
*Lost daughters campaign
*Refused asylum seekers forced to eat from bins says Rowntree trust
*Four years on Tesco still stalling on South African women's farm pay
*The words of God do not justify cruelty to women
*Irish Women Challenge Abortion Ban in European Human Rights Court
*Equality Bill: new amendments agreed by Committee MPs
*Banning age discrimination: consultation closes 30th Septamber 2009
*Equality Duty: Consultation closes 30th September 2009
*UK ratified human rights treaty for disabled people in June 2009
*Growing up in social housing in Britain: A profile of four generations from
1946 to the present day
*Benefit claimants 'still seen as scroungers', research shows
*Index to postings - May 2009
*Index to postings - April 2009
*There's only one of me: single parents, welfare reform and the real world
*Porn TV presenter job advertised in Jobcentre
*Annie Lennox: 'vile record industry exploits troubled women'
*Escaped child prostitutes say councils left them in danger
*New guidance on forced marriage is a united step forward - police
*Early Day Motion EDM 1604 Calls for Funding for Rape Crisis Centres - Ask your
MP to Sign
*Grant boosts rape crisis line's work in Oxfordshire
*A Welsh assembly member has called on the police and local authorities to put
up more cash to save North Wales rape crisis centre
*Memorial in Ireland to victims of rape and sexual abuse desecrated by mindless
vandals
*Domestic abuse costs Plymouth an estimated £110million a year - or £200 a
minute according to a new report
*2 vacancies - Birmingham & Solihull Women's Aid - 13th August 2009
*2 vacancies - Redbridge Action Against Domestic Abuse - 28th July 2009
*Briefing Welsh Assembly Government Consultation On A Violence Against Women
Action Plan For Wales
*Reclaim the Night March Leeds - organising meeting - 14th July 2009
*Lend Your Voice - The Testimony Project
*Photographic exhibition: LOCK & KEY until 31st July 2009
*Vacancy at KMEWO - 21st July 2009
*Information added to Women in London up to 6th July 2009
Index to current postings at http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?page_id=28

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

* Murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova condemned
* Three publications from AWID's Resisting and Challenging Religious
Fundamentalisms
* Rabbanit? Rabbah? Maybe just plain Rabbi? What should be the title of an
Orthodox woman who happens to also be a rabbi?
* Inquiry urged after Sudan women flogged for wearing trousers
* Accountability To Women Could Upset Business As Usual
* Fight Sexism to Help Young Mothers - South Africa
* Soldiers Who Rape, Commanders Who Condone: Sexual Violence and Military Reform
in the Democratic Republic of Congo
* Worrying increase in gang rape say police in Angola
* Repatriation of Rwandan Women Refugees in Uganda could increase hardships
* HRW condemns Rwanda's draft law on HIV tests and sterilisation
* Restricting Funding for Abortion Forces 1 in 4 Poor Women to Carry Unwanted
Pregnancies to Term in US
* Falling family planning funding threatens global poverty fight
* AIDS number one cause of maternal deaths in Zimbabwe
* Advances in tackling HIV at risk from economic downturn warns UN agency
* Uganda to Ban Female Genital Mutilation
* Syria Increases Minimum Sentence for Honor Killing
* Afghanistan Amends Controversial Shia Law
* Call for tougher laws on rape in Afghanistan
* Should unwanted sex as part of a good sexual relationship be considered a
criminal offence in New Zealand?
* Rape victims reporting more sex assault attacks in NSW Australia
* Sharp rise in sexual harassment complaints at workplaces in Isael
Index of postings: http://womensphere.wordpress.com/index-to-current-postings/

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