[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update Monday 22nd June 2009 - part 2 (23)

[WiL Updates]

22nd June 2009 - e-update part 2


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New on Women's Training and Funding (WiLT)
* Fw: Community Voices for Health engagement and development event - 2nd July 09
* Fw: Re-Scheduled Women CEO's SIG Meeting - 30 June 09
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)

* Gang rape: Is it a race issue? (Channel 4 tonight)
* Rape trial witness who was locked up overnight dies
* Women's Aid Ireland seeks donations to save helpline
* Women 'up to seven times less likely to report homophobic crime than men'
* Report from Conference on Polygamy now available
* Leading ladies kept out of the limelight
* Rosa Women Creating Change Award - deadline soon!
* Volunteer Development Worker (Female applicants only) - West Hampstead Women's
Centre - 10th July 2009

Index to current postings at http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?page_id=28

Subscribe: http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?page_id=11
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New on womensphere http://womensphere.wordpress.com
(international women's news and views)

* Give the women of Europe the right to free abortion!
* NOW elects Maryland woman its next president
* Japan debates whether abusing a virtual teenage girl should be outlawed
* Quarter of men in South Africa admit rape
* Decriminalizing sex work in South Africa only half the battle
* Zimbabwe girls trade sex for food
* Countries at war get little aid for mothers and children
* End Rape in War
* Burmese women's groups pressured to cancel protest in support of Aung San Suu
Kyi
* Sisters in Islam faces ban in Malaysia - please sign the petition to support
them
* Saudi Arabia Pledges End of Men's Control Over Women (UN)
* Gay couples to be protected by Hong Kong domestic violence law
* Cheers from Indian MPs after parliament elects first female speaker
* Egypt Approves Quota for Women in Parliament
* New Family Law for Sunni Women in Bahrain Not for Shiites
* Women Battle for Citizenship Rights in Lebanon
* Treat foreign wives in Malaysia equally says Minister
* The Socialist Feminist Project
* America, Empire of Liberty - 69. Women's Liberation - BBCi player available
until 18th June 2009
* Future of feminism an issue in NOW leadership vote (USA)
* Dozens of rape kits not submitted for testing by Chicago suburban police
departments
* Sex Power & Taboo: Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond
* Men and masculinity under spotlight in Fiji
* Women's groups in Turkey urge mobilization on gender equality
* A (paid) break for fathers in Spain
* Honour Pledges on Reproductive Health
* Unplanned Pregnancies on the Rise in Uganda
* Pregnant women at serious risk among Pakistan's displaced population
* Teenage pregnancy on the rise in Philippines
* Lack of midwives increases maternal deaths in Zimbabwe

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

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