Index to postings – August 2009
Posted on December 17, 2009
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August 2009
- Urgent Appeal to save lives of 1,000 Women in Camp Ashraf
- Charities launch LGBT youth domestic violence survey
- Registration Now Open For Feminist Activist Day: 12th Sept SOAS
- International experts on feminism and religion to speak at University of Leicester
- Symposium on feminism and art set for Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow
- Loophole leaves DVD law toothless
- Poll finds more than two-thirds of public happy to see older women such as Arlene Phillips and Moira Stuart on screen
- Oxford University admissions favour men, study finds
- Children’s care crisis as criminal vetting fees approach £600m
- A new unit has opened in Galway to treat victims of sexual violence and is the first of its kind in the west of Ireland
- Police watchdog in Wales calls domestic violence a major issue for all police forces
- Proposal for Pendle Women’s Refuge to be merged with other Pendle domestic violence services
- Sign the petition for women’s refuges to have the same right to multiple TV licences as hotels
- Domestic violence victims will be able to get greater protection from courts in England and Wales from next month
- New information added to Women in London up to 19th August 2009
- 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
- Liberate all of your unwanted glad rags to help vulnerable women
- Tackling three peaks to help Grimsby Women’s Aid
- Sustainable support for rape victims
- A UK-wide vetting scheme for people working with children faces difficulty because of a problem with the PSNI’s computer system
- Women must feel safe when reporting rape not have to worry about their medical records
- 95 abortions carried out on girls aged 14 or under last year in Scotland
- An innovative way of tackling domestic violence is being pioneered in the west of Scotland
- New research suggests criminalising paying for sex leads to increase in violence against sex workers
- ECPAT UK joins forces with The Body Shop UK in a new campaign to stop trafficking of children
- EHRC consultation on gender pay gap reporting – closes 28th October 2009
- Call for nominations for North East Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2009 – by 11th September 2009
- Research uncovers problems for parents of disabled children in need of summer childcare
- Al-Nisa Magazine 13 – Polygamy issue
- Art Exhibition & Panel Discussion- Artists 4 Human Rights & Social Justice
- Women in Tune (WIT) Music Festival ~ 28th August to 1st September 2009
- New Campaign Launched: ‘Desperately Seeking Sanitary Towels’
- Have your say on policing in London – closes 30th November 2009
- Harriet Harman: Equalities champion? Women’s liberation lite? Nutty, illogical and clunkily misandrist?
- Fewer than one in 16 rapes reported to the police results in a conviction in court, research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed
- Why is Scotland’s rape conviction rate so dismal?
- Swindon Community Partnership asks for opinions on domestic violence strategy
- Pilot scheme in Wales will link women suffering domestic abuse via a telecom system so an operator can assess whether the police need to be called greeted with caution
- Weymouth’s women’s refuge is to axed – because it doesn’t cater for men
- Quakers back gay marriage and call for reform
- Women denied IVF on NHS ‘by postcode lottery’
- Ministers predict dramatic fall in number of women in prison
- Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Newsletter 8 now available online
- Hotel cleaners in London paid a pittance as immigrants are exploited
- Women testify how the asylum system is a form of torture
- Will the UK Government push the UN to end rape in conflict zones?
- Early Day Motion EDM 1604 Calls for Funding for Rape Crisis Centres – Ask your MP to Sign
- Rape Crisis England and Wales comment on GEO special fund grant awards
- Government Equalities Office Special Fund 2009/10 Grant awards
- The Home Office funding to the existing SARC organisations
- Awards for Independent Sexual Violence Adviser (ISVA)
- The government has awarded more than £3million to support victims of rape and sexual violence
- The government’s failure to improve rape conviction rates can be put down to inaction and the unique legal obstacles of rape
- Harriet Harman reportedly at odds with Alan Johnson and Jack Straw over how to improve treatment of rape victims
- Children could be taught about domestic violence in school under new proposals
- One in 13 teenage girls in London pregnant
- Beatbullying reveals extent of ’sexting’ amongst British teenagers
- PhD Scholarship in Regulation of Pornography – 15th September 2009
- Family Support Manager – Jagonari Women’s Educational Resource Centre – 19th August 2009
- New information added to Women in London up to 31st July 2009
- Boris Johnson announces more details of funding for rape crisis provision in London
- Scottish Lib Dems call for action over rape figures
- Vote for women’s projects in Wales!
- We cannot rely on the government to enforce anti-discrimination laws
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- Senior Lecturer (Deputy Director and MA Co-ordinator) – Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit – 3rd August 2010
- Research and Development Manager Maternity Locum – Eaves Lilith Project – 2nd August 2010
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- Spain to ban sex adverts from national newspapers
- Uncertain Role for Female Shariah Judges in Malaysia
- NGOs blame lax government for rise in human trafficking in Nepal
- Sex Workers Face Unlawful Arrests and Detention in Cambodia
- Iraq fights another form of violence – in the home
- Domestic violence deaths rise 40 percent in Argentina
- The link between HIV and gender violence discussed at a workshop in Jamaica
- Polygamy ups HIV infection risk in Kenya
- Women in Ghana told to insist on their decisions on sex
- A Preventable Childbirth Injury That Ruins Lives in Kenya