Archive for April, 2008
Many thanks to everyone who has taken part in our survey “A Women’s Agenda for the Local Elections May 2008” but … … if you only voted on the opening question about funding women’s core services and did NOT go to the end of the survey and click on “submit survey” your opinions will not [...]
Scarborough Women’s Group has its inaugural meeting at the Friends Meeting House in Woodlands Drive today 28th April at 7.30pm. The group is open to all women who are interested in feminism and plans to hold debates, lectures, film evenings and trips as well as to campaign on feminist issues and raise money for Women’s [...]
Hours: 35 hours per week Salary: £40,722 – £43,280 – (NJC scp 46 – 49 incl of OLW) Hopscotch Asian Women’s Centre is a well established voluntary organisation that provides a range of services to South Asian families and children in Camden. Funded by Camden Council, Hopscotch plays a key role in the borough contributing [...]
Hours: Full Time Salary: £75k + excellent benefits Can you lead us as we grow? YWCA is the leading charity working with the most disadvantaged young women in England and Wales. This is an exciting opportunity to secure our position as the leading voice on issues affecting young women in England and Wales today. The [...]
Volunteer Coordinator needed! Survive, a women’s charity working against domestic violence in South Glos and Bristol is looking for a dedicated woman* to help us develop our growing volunteers programme. You’ll have an enthusiastic, positive attitude, experience in working with others in an organisational role, ability to commit 6 hours a week and enjoy a [...]
Hours: Full Time Salary: £37 – £40Kpa, + 5% Pension Contribution Bexley Women’s Aid – Safe homes. Secure relationships. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dynamic manager to lead this well established Charity providing a crucial service in the London Borough of Bexley The successful candidate will have excellent leadership skills, operational [...]
Hours: 37 hours including some evenings and weekends Salary: £30,598 NJC SP38 We are looking for an experienced manager with strategic skills, an understanding of domestic abuse issues and experience of a service environment. You will have excellent change management and team building skills as well as the drive to develop our service offering and [...]
Hours: 37 hours including some evenings and weekends Salary: £25,320 NJC SP31 We are looking for a worker who has operational experience of running Refuge based services for women and of service performance and development. You will have proven experience of managing staff performance in a small organisation and be keen to improve the quality [...]
Hours: Full Time Salary: Salary not less than £36,000 p.a Asha developing women’s resources The Asha Centre in Worcester was established in its present form in 2002 and has a national reputation for its work with disadvantaged women. The Director will provide leadership to a well qualified and motivated team, and will be responsible for [...]
Vote Match UK – London Mayoral and Assembly Elections Unlock Democracy has teamed up with the Netherlands-based Instituut voor Publiek en Politiek (IPP) to launch Vote Match UK. Our first project will be based around the 2008 London Mayoral and Assembly elections. We hope to continue this with future UK elections including 2009’s European Parliament [...]
During the Islamic revolution, an outspoken nine-year-old Iranian girl discovers Abba and punk before moving to Europe. … Hers is a funny and deeply involving story but its sharp stabs against the women-hatred of the Iranian governing classes are enough to trigger rage. … Details: 2007, France, Animation, cert 12A, 95 mins, Dir: Marjane Satrapi, [...]
Women are dying to look perfect. Literally. Last year’s toll included a music promoter who expired on the operating table while undergoing cosmetic surgery, and a couple of fashion models who starved themselves to death. High profile enough to have made headlines, these women may represent just a fast glimpse of the beauty industry’s dark [...]
University of York – 30th May 2007 The Centre for Women’s Studies have organised this one-day conference to discuss current debates and research in the field of violence against women. The conference will cover issues relating to domestic violence, rape in war and war crimes, men and violence and representation of violence. Plenary discussions will [...]
Travellers who have suffered domestic violence are being asked if they would prefer a women’s refuge in a caravan rather than a building, it emerged today. A branch of the domestic violence charity Women’s Aid is looking at providing a trailer or chalet-style facility in the garden of an existing refuge to improve services for [...]
* Cost of violence to women estimated at £40bn a year * Government ‘should make effort to change attitudes’ The British public gives more to a Devon-based donkey sanctuary than the most prominent charities trying to combat violence and abuse against women, a report released today by a leading philanthropy watchdog reveals. New Philanthropy Capital [...]
Under current legislation, people who travel to Britain on marriage visas remain completely financially dependent on their partners for the first two years. ———————————————————– Anita’s story and the callous immigration rule that trapped her At first glance Anita Jain looks and acts just like any other bright and confident 28-year-old woman. It’s only when she [...]
Home Office Appeals: Dubious Grounds Asylum Aid has recently represented two appeal cases that were both successful in the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) court of appeal but then contested and appealed by the Home Office. These cases both highlight significant issues regarding the types of cases the Home Office are actively pursuing to appeal [...]
The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre is calling for improved legislation governing the area of underage sex. The call follows the acquittal yesterday of a 27-year-old man who had consensual sex with a 13-year-old girl seven years ago. The jury in the case accepted the man’s defence that he was not aware the girl was under [...]
* Report backs scrapping of free nursery places at three and four to fund universal allowance * Mothers should be paid to stay at home if they want to when their children are young, according to a report launched by the Conservatives’ shadow minister for the family. State help for families has been channelled under [...]
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
Women’s Budget Group Response to 2008 Budget
27 April 2008 in Education, Employment Work, England, Equality, Financial, Funding, Gender Mainstreaming, Government, Health, Opinion Comment, Publication, Wales, Women's Group
WBG Responses – HM Treasury’s Budget 2008 We welcome the emphasis of this Budget on efforts to end child poverty. However, we are disappointed that you did not take the opportunity to address the acute and chronic funding crisis in sexual and domestic violence services within the women’s voluntary sector. In the last 10 years [...]