Join CAWN to celebrate 20 years of promoting women’s rights and gender equality in solidarity with women in Central America! RSVP to info@cawn.org This free event will be held from 6.30- 8.30pm on the 31st March in London at the Human Rights Action Centre (17-25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA). The evening will include: [...]
When Thursday, March 17, 2011 from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (GMT) Where University of London Hughes Parry Hall, 19/26 Cartwright Gardens, WC1H 9EF Hosted By Women Worldwide Advancing Freedom & Equality (WWAFE) Women Worldwide Advancing Freedom & Equality (WWAFE) is a London-based women’s rights group seeking to eliminate religious fundamentalism and promote the advancement [...]
Older Feminists NetworkIWD celebration Grey Hen poets, Ann Alexander, Kate Foley, Gerda Mayer and Joy Howard will be reading from their anthology “Cracking On” – lively poems about ageing and older women, published by Grey Hen Press, a small independent press. Michele Hanson will also be coming and reading from her writings on ageing. Conversation/discussion [...]
Short provocative scenes on Jewish and Muslim women’s lives from Pascal’s stage plays. Date Time: 8 March 2011. 3pm-4pm. Venue: Swiss Cottage Library, Swiss Cottage London NW3 Cost: Free Contact: J. Pascal Phone: 020 7383 0920 Email: pascaltheatrecompany@gmail.com Website: http://www.pascal-theatre.com
Join us for Tea, Cupcakes, Speakers, Poetry and a chance to meet NAADV Staff Tuesday 8th March 2011 from 12-2pm St Marks Community Centre,Tollgate Road, Beckton E6 5YA Feel free to wear purple! Click here to download the event flyer http://www.nvsc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/international-womens-day-poster-a4.doc
Marketing And Publicity 17th March 2011 The course will provide effective marketing and publicity techniques, and is specifically targeted at those working with BAMER women. All levels are welcome and participation is encouraged. Trainer Grace Francis is Founder and Director of the communications agency for not-for-profits, FromUpstairs.com. She has over a decade of experience working [...]
FORWARD and AFRUCA present the UK premiere of ‘The Witches of Gambaga’ By Yaba Badoe Winner of Best Documentary: Black International Festival 2010, this 55 minute documentary by Yaba Badoe tackles the taboo subject of witchcraft in Ghana. It portrays the situation of women branded as witches and thus condemned to a life of misery [...]
Imkaan‘s Director, Marai Larasi has been included in the GLA / Metro exhibition and poll of London’s 40 most influential women over the past 100 years. You can go to http://www.metro.co.uk/news/856722-most-influential-london-woman-poll-the-biographies to vote for Marai or any of the other women included within the poll.
Major Retailers to place Lads Mags ‘on Top Shelf’ Major Retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Morrisons, Co-op and BP Petrol Stations have announced that they will sell lads mags on the top shelf or cover them up. This move follows years of campaigning by OBJECT and a recent initiative by Mumsnet. “Finally supermarkets are following [...]
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 8 March 2011 * Honouring women’s lives * Celebrating women’s resistance * Working for non-violence Violence against women knows no borders. It occurs in peacetime and war. And everywhere, women are organizing against it. A few facts…. * Domestic violence is the major cause of death and disability for women aged 16 [...]
