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Canadian Member of Parliament John Rafferty (Thunder Bay – Rainy River) delivered a statement in the House last week calling for cooperation to end violence against Aboriginal women. “Aboriginal women continue to experience higher than average rates of sexualized violence in Canada,” said Rafferty. “It’s an injustice, pure and simple.”
Outside the House, Rafferty praised [...]
From North Dakota to Arizona, strong, talented, accomplished Native American women are taking up the challenge of protecting themselves and their sisters, their mothers and aunts, their grandmothers and granddaughters, from the devastation of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The level of violence against women and children in the U.S. is appalling, and the numbers for [...]
No? I didn’t think so (says Courtland Milloy in the Washington Post)
After all, who cares to tell sassy little Keisha that if she doesn’t stop mistaking sex for love, her next mistake could be her last. Of course, that wouldn’t be “age appropriate,” now, would it?
What about the Widow Jones? Since her husband passed, she [...]
Maya Angelou: ‘I’m So Proud’
Election night became a great moment in history, especially for African-Americans.
* Watch CBS video
Toni Morrison
Speaking in depth about her life and work, Morrison reflects on her forty-year career as a writer, her unwilling role as a spokesperson for black America, and the likely impact of Barack Obama’s election victory. [...]
The federal government needs to do more to address the root causes of violence against aboriginal women, says the Indian Affairs critic for the federal Liberals.
“Aboriginal women experience higher rates of violence. If that burden is going to be lifted, the socio-economic conditions and prosperity gap between aboriginals and non-aboriginals will have to be addressed,” [...]
30% of new cases among gay men are Black
40% of new cases among men in general are Black
70% of new cases among youth are Black
Besides the UNAIDS report, another report was released on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but this one deals with African Americans.
The report is entitled Left Behind – Black America, a Neglected Priority in [...]
Corporate drive for profits is damaging girls, women and eroding healthy relationships
College-age women often come to Professor Gail Dines in tears after she lectures about how popular culture has become poisoned with a hyper sexuality that demands women offer themselves to any man who asks.
The young women feel isolated and alone because they refuse to [...]
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 to [...]
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 travellers [...]
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 [...]
As many as 300 young women are believed to be coerced into marriage against their will annually in Scotland, with violence and even murder being the result in a small number of cases.
England is introducing new civil laws to ban the practice south of the border, but heads of the Islamic community in Scotland are [...]
Support is still needed
A big ‘thank you’ to all those who have and are supporting us in our hour of need! We have been truly humbled by the tremendous support that we have received from around the country and even internationally!
At a full cabinet meeting on 26th February 2008, despite a lively protest involving [...]
The group attended the Prime Minister’s Eid reception at Downing Street on on 31st January 2008.
NMWAG will be led by 19 Muslim women representing a wide spectrum of communities, professions and traditions. They will discuss issues and concerns that affect Muslim women, for example education, employment, access for women to mosques and their [...]
Local authority attempts to ‘decommission’ culturally specific refuges for victims of domestic violence will endanger the lives of abused women and children.
“Honour killings” has become a coded reference which instantly demonises certain communities. And while criminal justice experts detail gruesome stories and whip up moral panics based on “estimated numbers of cases”, the routes to [...]
Awas aims to empower& maximize the quality of Asian women to take positive control of their lives, to promote their welfare and respond to their needs.
Mental Health Co-ordinator – Therapeutic Arts project for Young Asian Women, AWAS (Asian Female post)
Salary: (£32,112) – (9months contract)
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated person with good management, [...]
Dear Friends
Southall Black Sisters is under threat of closure
We are writing to you to request support for our organisation. We are currently facing threat of closure as a result of our local authority’s (Ealing) decision to withdraw our funding as of April 2008.
Since the mid eighties our ‘core’ funding has been provided by Ealing. [...]
Male violence against women in all its forms must end
The programme on the Saturday 8th March – International Women’s Day – starts at 12pm
12pm Gather for march at Hyde Park, North Carriage (speakers corner end) Nearest Tube Marble Arch
3-5.30pm Rally at Trafalgar Square
6pm til 1am International women’s day love celebration indoor rally and all women [...]
Briefing Meeting And Reception
February 6th 2008 from 6.30pm – 8.30pm
MacMillan Room, Portcullis House
Funding cuts and policy changes are leading to a loss of expertise and services dedicated to the needs of women and children from BAMER communities and endangering the lives of women and children
Imkaan, is a small organisation which provides advocacy, training [...]
IKWRO provides a wide range of services for women and children who have experienced gender violence. These include information, advice, casework and advocacy.
The following vacancy is available and is funded by the Tudor Trust:
Advice coordinator (Female)
Full Time (35hrs/week) including some evenings and weekends
Starting Salary: £26,277 (NJC 29-31)
To have experience to coordinate frontline support services [...]
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- Trafficking Victims at UN Highlight Need for Recognition
- END FGM European Campaign launches web site
- Rid the world of female genital mutilation
- Lifting Silence on Menstruation to Keep Girls in School in Uganda
- Obama’s attack on abortion rights
- Differences between men’s and women’s health
- WHO calls for action beyond the health sector to improve the health of girls and women
- Malaysian Women’s Groups say Abolish Section 498
- Politics can be a Risky Business for Women in Bolivia
- new on womensgrid
- Rape Crisis Centres Westminster Hall debate 10 November 2009 at 12:30 pm
- Grassroots Co-ordinator – Women for Refugee Women – 23rd November 2009
- Jenny Okojie is doing a 7.2km sponsored walk for CRASAC – Please sponsor her!
- 16 days of action event Greater Manchester
- Football teams needed for special tournament against domestic violence in Barnet
- Be a judge for a day in Truro as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Week
- The right of murder suspects to use their partner’s sexual infidelity as a partial defence in court is set to end
- 100 rapists are let off with a caution: The serious offences that never come to court
- Scotland Yard has instructed officers not to use the phrase ‘gang rape’ to describe such crimes because it is too ‘emotive’ a term
- Government Shelves Measures To Restrict Paedophiles On Facebook because of Human Rights concerns
- new on women in london
- Information added to website September 2009
- Information added to website August 2009
- Information added to website July 2009
- GLDVP January-April 2010 open training programme is now available
- Prostitution Clauses Policing And Crime Bill 2009 – ECP
- Head of Communications – Women’s Resource Centre – 23rd November 2009
- Mrs Goundo’s Daughter – Free Event – Forward – 7th December 2009
- New European Campaign on FGM – Forward
- FORWARD releases an Information Services and Support Guide for Young People in the UK
- FGM is always with us – experiences perceptions and beliefs of women affected by female genital mutilation in London – Forward
Uncovering Black Feminist Writers 1963–90: An Evaluation of Their Coverage in Research Tools
8 June 2009 in Asia, BME, Feminism, North America, Opinion Comment, Research, WLM / Feminist History
Has the move toward online resources had an effect on source material for the study of black feminist theory? The last forty years have witnessed a critical mass of literary and theoretical writings on the black feminist movement. This article evaluates the coverage of writings by a select group of forty “second wave” (1963–75) and [...]