Rights of Women is in process of preparing a major funding application for the continuation of our vital legal advice and information services for women throughout England and Wales. In order to support us in demonstrating the need for these services we have prepared 2 short surveys: one for organisations who signpost service users to [...]
Safeguarding Against Forced Marriage and Honour Based Violence: Level 2 New Accredited Training Available from Imkaan Day 1: Understanding Forced Marriage and Honour Based Violence £105 / £130 – Imkaan full members / non-members 7 September, Sheffield 21 September, London By the end of this session participants will have a better understanding of the definitions [...]
Today, domestic violence is the biggest issue affecting women and children in this country. For the last three years Refuge and Avon have worked together to raise awareness and to support women suffering in silence. Today we are launching a powerful, new campaign – 1in4women – which focuses on the shocking reality that one in [...]
Eaves is running a series of workshops for borough–level statutory agencies and voluntary service providers who focus on prostitution. The aim is to equip attendees with the knowledge required to assist individuals who want to leave prostitution – including victims of trafficking – through facilitating access to appropriate services. Workshops will be run over a [...]
CWASU courses are aimed at professionals currently working in the statutory or voluntary sector who wish to: – Conduct internal evaluation, monitoring and small scale research projects; – Develop and extend specialist services dealing with child and/or woman abuse; – Undertake policy development at a local, regional or national level where they have responsibility for [...]
The 9th Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture will take place on Friday 12 August at 7pm at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield. The speaker will be Jo Stanley, and the topic “Suffragette Campaigners on the Ocean Wave” More information is available here: http://sylviapankhurst.gn.apc.org/SPML%202011.pdf
RASASC (Rape nad Sexual Assault Support Centre) South London supports around 5000 women who have been affected by sexual violence. RASASC also provide support and information to families and friends of people affected by sexual violence, and training to professionals working with survivors of sexual violence. In March 2011 RASASC began to collect monitoring information [...]
Do you have a commitment to working within a women-centered service and to making a real difference to vulnerable women’s lives? Women in Prison Ltd is a unique, national charity. We have the following vacancies for unpaid work: Volunteering/Mentor Opportunities Covering an Exciting Range of Areas We are looking to recruit a team of volunteers [...]
The Justice Select Committee report on the Role of the Probation Service highlights the main issues causing probation’s inability to effectively support and monitor women. Women are a minority Women are just 14% of the probation caseload. The Committee notes that “interventions, for example, accredited programmes, have been developed to meet the needs of the [...]
The latest issue of Focus on Women, Rights of Women‘s policy newsletter, is now available for download from the Rights of Women website here: http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/pdfs/Focus_On_Women/focus_on_women_no14.pdf This edition of Focus on Women provides information and our analysis on three major Government proposals that are set to have a huge impact on women’s equality, safety and access [...]
