Archive for March, 2008
Southall Black Sisters – Update on funding situation Demonstration for 1st April 2008 CANCELLED: We have had to cancel this demonstration because at the last minute, (28 March 2008) Ealing Council decided to postpone its decision about funding for domestic violence services in Ealing until May 2008. The Council is unable to decide as to [...]
An underage teenager was offered a variety of jobs in the sex industry when she visited her Jobcentre. The 17-year-old girl, who wishes to remain anonymous, was left shocked and disgusted after the sleazy vacancies appeared on a special machine which searches for jobs in the Wembley branch. One job was looking for webcam operators [...]
A Panorama investigation has uncovered how girls, sometimes as young as 12, are being groomed for prostitution by gangs on the streets of Britain. In what is often a hidden crime, gangs are targeting young girls in a process that starts as adolescent fun but soon leads to abuse, drug addiction and prostitution. The girls [...]
Animal lovers in Wales have been asked to play a key role in helping people escape domestic violence
The RSPCA is seeking “foster homes” for the pets of people fleeing abusive relationships. According to the welfare organisation, women – and sometimes men – who are being attacked can fear that if they escape the abuse their spouse will take out their anger on the pet. Welsh Women’s Aid, which helped find safe refuge [...]
That is the alarming finding of a city-wide scrutiny inquiry into domestic abuse which goes before the full council next week. Concerned councillors are now calling for a massive campaign across Birmingham aimed at education people and local communities about the consequences of domestic violence and the services available to deal with it. Nationally, an [...]
Open Letter 3/28/2008 Update: A New Underground Railroad is Born Subject: The Dunbar Village Atrocity In the past week, a rapidly-moving viral email campaign was launched, and thousands of concerned black citizens spread the word about a shocking crime against a Black woman and her 12 year old son, in which crimes against nature were [...]
Sexual violence against women is rampant in DRC but the majority of perpetrators, especially in “no-law” zones, go unpunished, according to a UN independent human rights expert. In South Kivu Province, for example, 14,200 rape cases were registered between 2005 and 2007 but only 287 were taken to court, Titinga Frederic Pacere, the UN Human [...]
The Liberian government has created a special court to deal with not only rising rape cases, but also other forms of violence against women, Liberia’s Information Minister Laurence Bropleh told IRIN. “The government has agreed to set up this court and the building is being built right now,” he said on 19 March. During Liberia’s [...]
By early evening the corridors of the Soldier Bar brothel in a busy commercial area of Accra were already filled with long queues of young girls and their clients, when heavily armed police stormed in, arresting all 160 of the girls. The targets of the raid, which took place in February, were the 60 girls [...]
The endless debate about paid maternity leave in Australia — among OECD countries, only Australia and the US do not have paid leave — has become an embarrassment, with lingering notions that somehow raising children is an entirely private affair. It is predominantly a personal matter, but the argument has been well won that children [...]
Shocking figures reveal between 50 and 90 per cent of people with an intellectual disability will be sexually assaulted – but only a handful of their abusers face court. The laws are being widened to make it possible to prosecute neighbours, friends and relatives of intellectually disabled people for sexual abuse, Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said. [...]
Participants of a one-day workshop titled “Domestic Violence” called for a review of the laws to control violence against women including the Women Protection Act. Council of Islamic Ideology organised the event, seeking proposals from civil society and gender issues experts on how to protect women against domestic violence. The speakers said misinterpretation of religion, [...]
Despite their active role played in the political social and economic life of the country, Ethiopian women and their contribution in welfare and bringing about positive change, this has not been acknowledged and paid its due, in the Ethiopian context, a gender activist said on Thursday. The activist said, the Ethiopian woman has always been [...]
£27,594 – £29,728 Rotherham Borough Council Neighbourhood and Adult Services Based in the centre of Rotherham within the Community Safety Unit, this is a full time post, working 37 hours per week. The main purpose of the job is to support the work of the Safer Rotherham Partnership and Rotherham MBC by ensuring a co-ordinated [...]
The gender pay gap more than trebles when women reach their 30s, according to a new TUC report Closing the Gender Pay Gap, published on the eve of the 2008 TUC Women’s Conference says that adult women in all age groups earn less than men of the same age. The sharpest increase in the gender [...]
Liverpool-based Worst Kept Secret has helped thousands of victims of abuse in their homes since it was launched in 2001. But its current funding package has come to an end and it now needs about £100,000 to keep it going for another year. Worst Kept Secret’s six employees are now being prepared for the worst [...]
In a school in south London, women in headscarves are learning English, childcare skills and citizenship, to smooth their integration into British life. The courses are encouraged under a new government policy to “empower” Muslim women, ultimately to combat the threat from Islamist violence, a threat made brutally clear when four homegrown suicide bombers killed [...]
British courts are overturning decisions taken by immigration officers that would have protected men and women from being forced into marriage. The director of UK Visas said that appeals to the courts were often successful because people sponsoring foreigners to enter Britain were too frightened to admit that the applicants were being forced into marriage. [...]
Oldham Council has confirmed that 36 Asian pupils have seemingly vanished from school registers, raising fears that some of them may have become victims of forced marriages. Oldham is one of 15 local authorities considered a ‘high-risk zone’ for the practice and was ordered to provide information to the Government on children missing from school [...]
Recent postings- Towards a Future without Fundamentalisms: New Report Analyzes Religious Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist Responses
- Statement on the Murder of Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, women’s human rights defender of Ciudad Juarez
- Sudan police arrest women protesting at flogging video
- UN Chief Leaves Women out of Year-End Summing Up
- Sex education is expelled from Egyptian schools
- Kurdish Parliament Turns Blind Eye to Prostitution
- Sexual harassment cases in Israel’s civil service rose 40% in 2010
- Women in south Sudan have been targeted in a string of abusive attacks by police cracking down on Western clothes
- Women and girls living in Haiti’s makeshift camps face an increasing risk of rape and sexual violence says Amnesty International new report
- Stand up against hatred and threats against LGBT in Malaysia
- new on womensgrid
- Tower Hamlets Residents Solidarity Campaign – Solidarity with women involved in prostitution in east London
- East London Fawcett: Free Gallery Tour ~ 12 May & Pay Gap Talk ~ 23rd May 2012
- The Light Bulb Moment and future of feminism Book launch and panel – Bristol ~ 15th May 2012
- Hollaback! Portsmouth launch event – Tuesday 22nd May 2012
- Run for Congo Women – Deadline extended to 25th May 2012!
- Fast fall in number of male-only FTSE 100 boards
- Why has the UK got so few women scientists?
- The Haven Wolverhampton E Bulletin May 2012
- 2 vacancies – Shakti Women’s Aid (Edinburgh) ~ 28th May 2012
- Volunteering for Dorset Rape Crisis Centre
- new on women in london
- Information added in March 2012
- Information added in February 2012
- Information added in January 2012
- Pro-Choice Public Meeting – Abortion Rights ~16th May 2012
- Fawcett on Queen’s speech: flexible parental leave / red tape challenge
- Policy and Campaigns Internship – Power and Agency campaign – Fawcett ~ 22nd May 2012
- Administration and Finance Worker – Women in Prison ~ 18th May 2012
- A Women’s Agenda for the Local Elections May 2012 – Survey Results
- Friends of the Women’s Library update on the future of the Library
- Women in Black, vigils and Facebook page
In praise of women’s organisations
28 March 2008 in Opinion Comment, Women's Group
Comment published by Third Sector Magazine from John Knight, head of policy and campaigns at Leonard Cheshire Disability: jk.thirdsector@googlemail.com I often write in this column about the real difference that voluntary organisations make to people’s lives. This is certainly true in terms of how the voluntary sector affects the lives of many thousands of women. [...]