women in london

Speakers: Catherine Briddick, Senior Legal Officer, Rights of Women Pragna Patel, Director, Southall Black Sisters Debora Singer, Policy and Research Manager, Asylum Aid Adam Weiss, Director, the AIRE Centre Invited: Matthew Coates, Gender Champion, UK Border Agency Chair: Emma Scott, Director, Rights of Women Date: Wednesday 7 December 2011 Time: 6-7.30pm followed by refreshments (registration [...]

‘Mobilising Young African Women in the UK’: An afternoon of interactive workshops and panel discussions Time: 2.00pm-7.00pm at the Africa Centre, 38 King Street, London WC2E 8JT Why should you attend this event? Are you fed up with the negative images of Africa especially of women and want to promote a positive view in the [...]

Title: Challenge Militarism: WILPF Autumn Seminar Location: Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EA Date: 3rd December 2011 Time: 10.30 am – 4 pm 1 year of the World’s military expenditure OR 700 years of the UN regular budget OR 2,928 Years of the budget for UN Women? Following the 2011 [...]

Join Women in Publishing for our November meeting – changing career direction. Our first speaker, Helen Speedy is publishing recruiter for Attwood Tate and will talk about the current job market, including what skills are in demand. Our second speaker, Anabel Unity spent 13 years as a journalist specialising in social care after graduating with [...]

Until tomorrow at 08:00am on Facebook! Are you sick of Facebook allowing sites that promote rape culture? Do you want to do a little more rape culturejamming? After the huge success of our first jam we have created the next event – due to begin on Monday the 24th of October at 8pm. … Join [...]

Women – Protest the sexist Miss World contest! Sunday 6 November 2011 From 14:00 to 18:30 at Earl’s Court Join the London Feminist Network, OBJECT, UK Feminista, Million Women Rise and others in demonstrating against the Miss World contest at Earls Court on Sunday 6 November. Join this mass protest and let your feelings about [...]

From 19:00 to- 23:00 at Horse and Groom, 28 Curtain Road, Shoreditch (http://www.thehorseandgroom.net/) Come join us at the Horse and Groom in Shoreditch for a fantastic evening of music in celebration of everyone who hearts consent before sex. All funds go directly to Rape Crisis South London (www.rasasc.org.uk), a brilliant charity which runs the national [...]

Refuge and NSPCC research findings conference A morning conference to share the findings of Refuge and the NSPCC’s research Tuesday 22nd November 2011, Barbican Cinema 3, Barbican Centre, EC2Y 8DS 10:00 am concluding with networking lunch from 12:15 am New research from Refuge and the NSPCC shows that despite improvements in approaches to addressing domestic [...]

Do you experience anger/loss of self confidence every time you walk past mainstream advertising and you see innumerable images of the mythical ideal woman? Do you wonder why you experience these feelings? Come along to this feminar and learn about the dynamics of how mainstream advertising is so effective at undermining your self-confidence and self-belief. [...]

‘Angels’ is the vomit-inducing name given to the women’s division of the English Defence League. This fascist organisation has previously tried to claim that it supports women’s rights – though such hollow rhetoric presumably doesn’t include the rights of women of … colour or migrant women. It is therefore crucial that a strong feminist presence [...]