[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update 29th February 2008 - part 3 - womensphere links and calendars updated

[WiL Updates]

29th February 2008 (WiL e-update part 3)


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Information added to women in london 29th February 2008
* Index of links to new entries: http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

womensphere
* Index of postings in February - updated 29th Feb
* RSS feed of most recent postings

WiL Calendars
* Women's Events 2008 - updated 29th Feb
* Women's Funding and Consultation Deadlines 2008 - updated 29th Feb
* Women's Training and Courses Dates 2008 - updated 29th Feb
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New on womensphere
http://womensphere.wordpress.com

* Jack Straw scraps reform of prostitute law to avoid prison officer
strike
* Manager, North Devon Womens Aid
* Chair of Trustees, Domestic Violence Intervention Project (London)
* Gender Equality Gets a Drop of the Funding Bucket
* UN campaign takes on violence against women
* £10m to battle domestic violence in Scotland
* Report calls for changes to rape coverage in the media
* Sexual Violence Policy Monitoring Sub-group of the Women's National
Commission - February 2008 - Prostitution Q & A
* European Feminist Forum (EFF) June conference in Poland cancelled
* Crossing borders, across genders - feminist issues in the 2000s
* Research into working conditions, everyday experience, strategies
and policy development in women's organisations
* WLUML Vacancy: Finance and Administrative Officer
* Jobcentre ad seeking women to pose for sleazy webcams
* Statement from the Feminist Coalition Against Prostitution (FCAP)
regarding Steve Wright found guilty of murdering five young women
involved in prostitution in Ipswich
* The Solicitor-General Vera Baird, QC responds to claims by Women
Against Rape that the Government hasn't done enough to secure justice
for rape victims
* Abolish No Recourse to Public Funds; End Violence Against Women!
* Helping Mansfield and Ashfield Women's Aid
* 'Make the Change' domestic violence programme to be expanded
* 'Inspire a Change - Stop Domestic Violence', in aid of the Mayo
Women's Refuge
* The Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) International has
stressed the urgent need to educate people on the use of condoms
* Bush Says He Would Change Global AIDS Abstinence-Only Earmark if
Proven Ineffective
* UN and Campaigners Highlight Grim Reality Of 'Happy Trafficking'
* Government introduces measures to check trafficking in state in
India
* Women protest 'attack' on abortion in Italy
* Halt Woman's Execution for 'Witchcraft' in Saudi Arabia
* Muslim women in Australia speak up about domestic violence
* Kenya's "women in white" to circle peace talks
* womensphere - layout changed again!!
* IWD Events 2008 - have their own blog
* SAVE SBS PICKET
* Truth About Rape - campaign re-launch
* Ladyfest comes to Goldsmiths! includes benefit gig for Poppy Project
* Bristol production of the Vagina Monologues to raise money for V-Day
and Women's Aid
* Housewives should be paid £30,000 for doing the cooking, laundry and
childcare
* A new approach to women's issues is needed says the Conservative
Party
* Mothers are to be given new powers to check whether people who have
access to their children have convictions for paedophile offences
* Children And Domestic Violence in Wales
* 30 saved from sex traffickers in Scotland
* Trafficked Women Deserve More Than Just Talk
* The African Network of Women Peace Negotiators created
* Many maternal deaths worldwide preventable-study
* Egypt: Are attitudes to rape beginning to change?
* "Hidden Violence is a Silent Rape"
* Nepalese women trafficked to India returning home with high rates of
HIV/AIDS
* Bahrain: Why women 'are suffering silently'
* The National Muslim Women's Advisory group (NMWAG) formally launched
by the Prime Minister
* Refuges for minority ethnic women must not be closed
* Government pledge to cut domestic violence 'has failed'
* Police were called to almost 6,000 domestic violence incidents in
Greater Manchester in a month, new figures have revealed.
* Bury Women's Aid management team resign - refuge to close
* Innocent victims of the legal system - children of imprisoned women
put up for adoption
* Nigeria: Women and the Line Between Mental Breakdown and Crime
* Manila women fight contraception ban
* Protest the Closure of Zanan Magazine - feminist publication in Iran
* Niger: Fall in rate of female genital mutilation/cutting
* Too scared to tell - sexual violence in Darfur
* Rape Is Weapon in Kenyan Violence
* Ghana: Choose Women As Presidents, Not Running Mates
* Botswana: Domestic Violence Bill Sails Through Parliament
* African women slam abuse of females with HIV/AIDS
* Uganda: 'Domestic Voilence Rampant'
* Funds crunch threatens the effective implementation of the
Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (PWDVA) across
India
* Prostitution Policy: New Directions
* Domestic Violence Rise After Scotland Loss To Italy
* 13-year-old girl raped by 'groom' after her family calls off
marriage (Dublin)
* Number of rapists who escape jail doubles
* Sharia 'law is reactionary and extremely discriminatory against
women'

Index with links of February postings:
http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk/public/ws-0802.htm
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