[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update Friday 8th May 2009 (16)

[WiL Updates]

8th May 2009


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Information added to Women in London 5th and 8th May 2009
* Index of links to new entries: http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

Group Listing
* The Griffins Society is now part of the directory – Welcome!

Events
* London National Strategy Meeting to Oppose Immigration Controls -
cancelled
* Developments in Prostitution Policy - Eaves POPPY Project and LSBU -
15th May 2009
* Anniversary Celebrations of Millennium Group Three - WAFE - 16th May
2009
* Speak out on the Equality Bill - Fawcett - 8th June 2009

Notices
* Help-Line For Women Survivors Of Violence Has Extended Opening
Hours - Women and Girls Network
* Fawcett launches Rosa Parks bus ad to boost black women's votes
* Fawcett local groups

Training
* 'FREE WORKSHOPS on Prostitution & Trafficking in May Eaves
* 'PEARLS' Free Radio Presentation and Production Course - Women's
Radio Group - 2nd June 2009

Vacancies
* Administrative Officer - Education for Choice - 11th May 2009
* 2 Vacancies - Solace - 18th May 2009
* Director and P/T Female Advice Worker - Imece - 27th May 2009
* Part time Intern - Rights of Women

WiL Calendars
* Events Calendar - updated
* Training and Funding Calendars will be updated on Monday
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New on womensgrid http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk
(women's news and views UK and Ireland)

* Sisters in poetry - Carol Ann Duffy
* Poetic justice: a gay woman is the people's choice
* Call out for meeting to form a radical child care collective - 11th
May 2009
* Behind the Smile - 19th May 2009
* Over and Out - Launch event for research report
* For transnational feminism! 10th May 2009
* Red Room Platform: Women's Edition - 10th May 2009
* City Hall must be accountable to Londoners - State of London Debate
9th May 2009
* Liverpool's first rape crisis centre in decade to open
* 'Living hell' of nine-year-old rape victim in Lincoln
* Rapists escape with a caution in Kent
* 77 trafficked Chinese children lost by home near Heathrow
* Women are hard hit by lack of mental health provision in prisons
* 'Postcode lottery' on health visits - 8 of the 10 PCTs with the
lowest number of Health Visitors are in London
* Vacancies posted on womensgrid
* 3 vacancies - Birmingham & Solihull Women's Aid - 4th June 2009
* Family Support & Group Worker - Maternity cover - Survive - 13th May
2009
* Sessional and Support Workers - Southampton Women's Aid - 12th May
2009
* Partnership Manager (Domestic Violence) - 26th May 2009
* Domestic Violence & Housing Coordinator 15th May 2009
* Oral Histories of the Black Women's Movement and Documenting the
Archives
* the paper birds theatre company presents in a thousand pieces 4-16
May
* FPC Report Launch - Women and Children First: Leadership and the HIV
& AIDS Crisis in Africa
* 6 May - Welfare Reform Deepens Our Crisis
* Talkback Performed by Kali Theatre at Rich Mix in Bethnal Green Road
* Muslim Women Music Makers at Rich Mix Bethnal Green Road
* Faith, Homophobia, Transphobia And Human Rights Conference 2009
* Women's Human Rights events and films at Amnesty HRC in May and June
* A Lowestoft theatre is putting on a charity production to coincide
with a global movement to end violence against women and girls
* The Stop It Now! campaign to tackle child sexual abuse
* Child porn websites fall but more work needed
* Hundreds of women are being sexually exploited in Ireland's
flourishing €180m-a-year illicit sex industry
* Only 8 per cent of reported rapes in Ireland result in convictions a
study has found
* Domestic violence affecting 11,000 Northern Ireland children every
day
* 'National shame' of Scotland's 7000 incidents of domestic abuse in
six weeks
* Too Shocking - Cuts demanded in Keira Knightley's anti-domestic
violence advert
* Should women in the media have to bare all?
* Information added to Women in London up to 22nd April 2009

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