[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update Monday 8th June 2009 (21)

[WiL Updates]

8th June 2009

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Many many thanks to everyone who took the time to participate in our survey - A
Women's Agenda in a time of sleaze and recession. We hope you found the results
interesting and also an opportunity to find out (a bit) about some of the other
subscribers to this list. See
http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk/2009/06/notices-wil/
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Information added to Women in London 1st, 3rd and 5th June 2009
* Index of links to new entries: http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

Group Listing
* Pascal Theatre Company is now part of the directory
* Life-Changers directory entry updated

Group Closed List Updated
* London Women's Liberation Oral History Group
* Microsyster
* Polari

Events
* Stripping The Illusion: The Lap Dancing Industry Exposed - Object - 1st July
2009
* What the Other Feminists Look Like... Feminist Fightback - 30th June 2009
* Launch of Demand Change! - Eaves and Object - 24th June 2009
* Jewish Mothers & Daughters - Pascal Theatre Company - 14th June 2009
* Have Your Say On Equal Pay - Fawcett / Unison - 8th June 2009

Notices
* A Womens Agenda in a time of sleaze and recession - June 2009 - Survey
results - 4th June 2009
* Pascal Theatre looking for space in a community or arts centre for after
school drama workshops in Camden
* Fawcett comments on cabinet reshuffle and appointment of Alan Sugar to
Government
* Fawcett responds to loss of three four of the most senior women in British
politics in one day
* Daycare Trust react to Beverley Hughes announcement
* A Womens Agenda in a time of sleaze and recession - June 2009 - survey closes
2nd June at 10pm
* GLDVP Newsletter - June 2009
* Government Urged To Address Growing Sexualisation Of Women And Girls - Object

Training
* Community Groups Treatment Programme - GLDVP - 17th June 2009

Vacancies
* 8 vacancies - Women in Prison - 10th June 2009
* Paid and volunteer vacancies at Haringey Women's Forum - 22nd June 2009
* 2 vacancies - Bird's Eye View - 29th June 2009

WiL Calendars
* Events Calendar - updated 8th June 2009
* Training Calendar - updated 8th June 2009
* Funding Calendar - updated 8th June 2009
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New on Women's Training and Funding (WiLT)

* Fw: Voice4Change England e-alert 29th May
* Fw: BBC Children in Need Launch New Grants Programme 'Fun and Friendship'!
* Consultation event: Recession and the Women's Sector - Tuesday 23rd June
* Fw: London Civic Forum e-bulletin: June 2009
* Fw: Muslim women and urban design: LWPF seminar
* Fw: The SMK 2009 Awards for campaigners are closing - have you entered?
* Fw: ESOL for Parents flyer
* Fw: REMINDER INVITE: Women CEO's Special Interest Group Meeting- 10 June 09
* Medical Justice Befriender Training Day - Sat 27th June 2009
* Urgent - Home Office's violence against women consultation
* The Way Forward Consultation Event - 3rd July 2009
* WCVA launches online funding database
* Charity Commission warns Trustees they must report serious incidents
* Fw: Community Groups Treatment Programme
Links at
http://freecharity.org.uk/pipermail/womeninlondontraining/2009-June/date.html

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

* The Refugee Women's Resource Project seeks Advisory Committee members
* Welfare Reform Bill amendments briefing - 9th June 2009
* Insight with Rana Husseini: Murder in the Name of Honour 10th June 2009
* Cheating on the Sisterhood - Book Launch & Reading - Wigtown
* The Way Forward Consultation Event - 3rd July 2009
* The "I just wanna camp with you lot" camp this summer, West Wales 1-8August
* It's academic: university women are beating men at almost everything
* Employers 'targeting pregnant women for redundancy'
* Top model exposes sordid side of fashion
* Safer Lives: Changed Lives - A Shared Approach to Tackling Violence Against
Women in Scotland
* Violence Against Women in Rural and Urban Areas
* Rural domestic violence 'hidden'
* Million Women Rise Camp 2009 - Join us for one night or the whole week . women
arise!
* The Haven Wolverhampton - appeal for donations towards their summer active
play programme
* One Law for All fundraiser dinner - 27th June 2009 - London
* The Boris Keep Your Promise campaign says "Deeds not words, Mr Mayor."
* Urgent - Home Office's violence against women consultation
* A Women's Agenda in a time of sleaze and recession - survey - closes 10pm 2nd
June 2009
* BNP bigots are racist AND sexist
* Uncomfortable Poems by Older Women - 6th June 2009
* Mary Davis: Comrade or Brother?
* Conspirators - Women in the Polish Resistance - 10th June 2009
* Free Event - Women & Design - Wolverhampton
* Sponsored Family 4 Mile Charity Walk - Staffordshire
* Crossings - 5th and 6th June 2009
* The Maid - a provocative women storytelling - 25th and 26th June 2009
* 2 vacancies at KMEWO - 15th June 2009
* Charity loses funding to help child refugees wrongly classified as adults
* Conservatives warn that one in twelve child rapists avoid jail
* Another year of last minute funding for Rape Crisis England and Wales
* Mayor announces £1.4 million for rape crisis centres
* Rapist 'get-out clause' concern in Scotland
* Women's Asylum News - May 2009
* UK fails to tackle modern slave trade
* Stephen Lewis: The UN has let down the world's women. Now let's put that right
* Equality Bill Will Build A Fairer And Stronger Britain - Harriet Harman
* Abortion numbers 'fall slightly' (England and Wales)
* Disappointment over abortion rise in Scotland
* Abortion numbers 'fall slightly' (England and Wales)
* Disappointment over abortion rise in Scotland
* Northern Ireland women going to Holland for cheaper abortions
* Call for overhaul of child services in Ireland
* Helpline calls surge after report into child abuse in Ireland
* Top Employers for working families list is launched
* The North East Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2009
* Winners of the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2009
* Project Development Officer Mental Health - Henna Asian Women's Group - 26th
June 2009

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

* Uncovering Black Feminist Writers 1963-90: An Evaluation of Their Coverage in
Research Tools
* Obama Addresses Global Women's Rights in Cairo Speech
* Terror in the name of Jesus
* Total Ban on Abortion in Nicaragua Violates Human Rights Says UN
* Abortion Hotline Launched in Chile
* Spaniards against free abortion for 16 year olds - poll
* Liberals launch EU pro-choice abortion initiative
* UN says 3 year old rape victim dies in Congo
* Bringing rape out of the shadows in Cameroon
* Women and children fleeing abuse flood shelter in Anchorage
* Gaps found in research on domestic violence in Switzerland
* Say no to domestic violence - Saudi Arabia
* Measures being put in place to handle reports of domestic violence in Guyana
* Domestic violence and residence permit problems drive Thai women underground
in Finland
* The Body Of Women: Female Image In Italian Television
* Playboy's Misogyny More Overt Than Ever
* Women's groups fought a losing battle against pornography
* 'Sexy' billboard guidelines tossed to women's groups in the Philippines
* Thai Women's groups condemn media for intimate pics of woman politician
* The Women's Information Network-Fiji (WINET-Fiji) believes in informing and
mobilising the women population of Fiji
* First Woman Speaker in India
* UN Women Peacekeepers in Short Supply
* Afghan women are killed for demanding their rights: MADRE responds
* Women Breaking Out of Political Corset in Uruguay
* IANSA Making gun control accessible to women
* The United States led War in Afghanistan and the Implications of the
Polarization of the Burqa as a Symbol of the Oppression of Afghani Women
* Thanks to Facebook Young Women Take to Political Activism in Egypt

Index of postings: http://womensphere.wordpress.com/index-to-current-postings/

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