The Sheila McKechnie Awards are an annual bursary scheme for emerging and grassroots campaigners. Campaigners are a powerful force for change in our society but we know that the reality is often hard work and a lot of frustration. Our awards have been created to equip campaigners with the skills that they need to be successful. We focus on the ingredients for campaigning success and seek to share them with campaigners across the United Kingdom.
See full details at original posting Sheila McKechnie Awards 2008 for emerging and grassrootscampaigners
Recent postings- Call For Women Worldwide to Support Women’s Rights in Iran
- In Indai men in uniform may face stiffer rap for rape
- Indian court decriminalizes consensual gay sex
- Third Gender Assert Rights in Nepal
- Viet Nam sets the pace for Asia with new law to prevent statelessness of women who married abroad
- Stabbing of local officials triggers massive outpouring over women’s rights in China — Deng Yujiao’s case highlights official corruption and violence against women
- Online pedophiles blackmail children into meetings
- Dutch abortion medics protest violence against clinics and women
- Barriers Go Up For Abortion in Slovakia
- To Help Women, Leaders Should Dig Deeper than Religious Clothing
- Gender Wire
- EAST AFRICA: Raising the Bar for Gender Equality
- Q&A: "The Killing of Women Is Like Killing a Bird Today in Afghanistan"
- ARGENTINA: Women Writers Who Break the Mould
- SAUDI ARABIA: New Bill Fails to Protect Domestic Workers, HRW Says
- BRAZIL: Electoral Reform "Just a Sop" to Women
- RIGHTS: No Safe Haven for Ugandan Girls
- MAURITANIA: First Steps for Women's Cooperatives
- SOUTH AFRICA: Fight Sexism to Help Young Mothers
- HEALTH-MADAGASCAR: Eight Women Die During Delivery Each Day
- PUERTO RICO: Pride in Sotomayor Rekindles Debate Over Status
- new on womensgrid
- There’s only one of me: single parents, welfare reform and the real world
- Porn TV presenter job advertised in Jobcentre
- Annie Lennox: ‘vile record industry exploits troubled women’
- Escaped child prostitutes say councils left them in danger
- New guidance on forced marriage is a united step forward – police
- Early Day Motion EDM 1604 Calls for Funding for Rape Crisis Centres – Ask your MP to Sign
- Grant boosts rape crisis line’s work in Oxfordshire
- A Welsh assembly member has called on the police and local authorities to put up more cash to save North Wales rape crisis centre
- Memorial in Ireland to victims of rape and sexual abuse desecrated by mindless vandals
- Domestic abuse costs Plymouth an estimated £110million a year – or £200 a minute according to a new report
- new on women in london
- Temporary Female Independent Domestic Violence Adviser - Advance - 10th August 2009
- Female Specialist data tracker and analyst - Advance - 24th July 2009
- Female Domestic Violence Housing Advocate - Advance - 24th July 2009
- Bright Ideas Conference - GLDVP - 15th September - early bird bookings until 31st July
- Poverty pathways – ethnic minority women’s livelihoods – new Fawcett report
- New Film Exposes Lap Dancing Industry - Object
- New Advice and Support Centre for Women - Eaves
- 2 vacancies - Greenwich Women’s Aid - 13th July 2009
- Internship opportunities - Refuge - 17th July 2009
- 2 vacancies - Refuge - 14th July 2009
