[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update Monday 7th December 2009 (42 - 1 of 2)

[WiL Updates]

7th December 2009 - WiL e-update part 1


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6th December 2009 was the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre
* Survivors Reflect On The "Montreal Massacre" 20 Years Later
http://jezebel.com/5420086/survivors-reflect-on-the-montreal-massacre-20-years-later
* The killing of 14 women by a lone gunman led to the setting up of the White
Ribbon Campaign in Canada that calls on men to act against male violence against
women http://www.whiteribbon.ca/
* One of the 16 Days of Action
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Information added to Women in London 1st December 2009
* Index of new information at http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

Events
* Christmas Bazaar - London Irish Women's Centre - 11th December 2009

Notices
* Current Services and Christmas Opening Times - London Irish Women's Centre
* Women's Radio Group Online Broadcast 2nd December
* The Sojourner Project - new national project for women with no recourse to
public funds - Eaves

Training
* Courses at Hillcroft College for Women

Vacancies
* Team leader and Outreach Worker - Hillcroft College - 11th December 2009
* Outreach Workers - Hillcroft College For Women - 11th December 2009
* Head of Operations - Hillcroft College For Women - 14th December 2009
* Voluntary Trustees - Wandsworth Women's Aid
* P/T Child Worker (Six month contract) - Wandsworth WA - 4th December 2009
* Refuge Support Worker - Wandsworth WA - 21st December 2009

Calendars
* Will be updated tomorrow
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New on womensgrid http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk
(women's news and views UK and Ireland)

* Anti-pink group wants Christmas boycott of Early Learning Centre
* Sex doesn't sell in mainstream cinema says study
* Research into song lyrics about sexual violence reveals that they both support
and empower women
* Asylum seeker and daughter given permission to stay after fleeing domestic
violence in Ethiopia
* We can't afford to abandon the children who are suffering from domestic
violence
* Irish nuns offer euro128M for permitting child abuse
* Women who have been raped tell in their own words of the experience of the
attack and of what followed for Rape Crisis Ireland Network book
* The Stern Review of Rape Complaints - Call for Evidence will close on December
30th 2009
* Scotland Yard sets up £1.4m intelligence team in response to failures in
Worboys and Reid cases
* A police watchdog says a woman who complained of rape was "let down" by South
Wales Police
* In the first known case of its kind, a woman who made a rape complaint which
was not investigated properly has reached an out of court settlement with police
* 6th December is:
* Documenting Migration Event @ Gasworks Saturday 5th December
* Electric Landladies - Saturday 5th and 12 December 2009 - London
* Petition for anti sexism regulation closes 9th December 2009
* Major Gifts Manager - WOMANKIND Worldwide - 4th January 2010
* Staff Psychotherapist - Group (Female) - Women's Therapy Centre - 31st
December 2009
* women at thewell - 2 Female Support Worker (fixed term) - 11th December 2009
* Womens Health Matters Vacancy - 5th January 2010
* How I Became and Asylum Seeker - 3rd December Manchester - author faces
deportation
* 'Christmas Voices' - A music, dance & poetry benefit, 5 December - Benefit
* Abortion Support Network Pro Choice 'Happy Hour - Monday 7th December
Clerkenwell
* 'As Far as the Eye can Sing' with Frankie Armstrong - Saturday 12th December
5pm till 6.30pm - London
* The Woman Writer - The History of the Society of Women Writers & Journalists
* Winter Issue of HerStoria is now out
* Women's Aid in Nottingham celebrates 30 years
* Taunton Women's Refuge book launch
* Women refused at refuges as domestic abuse rate rises 8% in Scotland
* Lack of women's refuge in Dublin branded an 'utter disgrace'
* Women's charity 'turned down other money' before Government's campaign funding
U-turn
* Anti-abortion campaigners have won a High Court bid to clarify government
guidelines on abortion in Northern Ireland
* European court to be told Irish abortion ban violates rights
* National Secular Society forces Government to remove religious opt out from
discrimination law
* Sign the Petition to the Prime Minister to Condemn Uganda's proposed
"Anti-Homosexuality Bill"
* Sophia is a network of women and organisations around the UK, part of the
UNAIDS-coordinated Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
* 1st December 2009 is:
* Sat 28 November - Representations of Women in the Media - Bristol
* Women asked to strip. for feminism
* Video of National Women's Liberation Conference 1970
* Did you take the Pill during the 60s? If so the BBC would like to hear from
you
* UK Government must pay Northern Ireland's annual 1 million pound bill for
women forced into private abortions says fpa
* Response by Rape Crisis (England and Wales) to Rape: The Victim Experience
Review
* Peer calls for radical steps to reduce rapes - Introduce free late-night
transport for women and teach boys about consent
* Ruth Rendell supports fight against FGM (female genital mutilation)
* Campaign to raise awareness of femicide in Ireland
* Many women still left at risk of domestic violence says Director of Women's
Aid Ireland
* Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse supports families who've lost close ones
to domestic homicide
* UN unveils Network of Men to fight abuse of women
* New information added to Women in London up to 25th November 2009

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1st December 2009 was World Aids Day
* World AIDS Day theme: Universal Access and Human Rights
http://www.avert.org/world-aids-day.htm
* World Aids Day 2009 UK theme: HIV:Reality
http://www.worldaidsday.org/hivreality.aspx
* One of the 16 Days of Action
http://womensphere.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/16-days-of-activism-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women-%e2%80%93-25-november-to-10-december-2/
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Part 2 of this e-update to follow .
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