
Asylum and immigration law: protecting women from violence and securing their position in the UK
** 23 April 2008 9.30am - 4.30pm: This one day course will provide a practical overview of asylum and immigration law with particular emphasis on the needs of women who are or have experienced gender-based violence. The course will cover the following:
The legal framework for protection (including the Refugee Convention 1951, the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 and the EU Qualification Directive)

Applying for asylum in the UK (including the New Asylum Model and Legacy Cases)

EEA nationals, their partners and rights on relationship breakdown

Supporting a woman making an application for indefinite leave to remain under the domestic violence rule

Challenging "No recourse to public funds"

Just Married? The law of marriage, divorce and forced marriage
** 7 May 2008 9.30am - 4.30pm: To coincide with the expected implementation of the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 in autumn 2008, this exciting, new one-day course will update participants on the very latest changes to the law of forced marriage and provide an essential legal grounding on the following issues:
Recognising whether a marriage is legal, particularly in relation to foreign and overseas marriages

Explaining the legal rights and consequences of getting married

Clarifying the status of religious divorces

Examining when an overseas divorce is legally recognised in England and Wales

Providing a comprehensive overview of the law of forced marriage

Meeting the needs of diverse groups of women including Refugee or asylum seeking women and women with an insecure immigration status in the UK

Supporting survivors of domestic violence: law and practice (In partnership with the nia project)
** 4 June & 27 November 2008 9.30am-4.30pm: This new course offers participants the opportunity to develop a greater understanding of domestic violence and its impact on women together with a practical overview of the new law relating to domestic violence including:
An overview of the impact and effect of domestic violence on the lives of women and children

Challenging myths and stereotypes in order to develop good practice

Applying for a non-molestation order or occupation order: forms and procedure

The new criminal offence of breach of a non-molestation order

Supporting women through civil and criminal law systems and in particular vulnerable victims including refugee or asylum seeking women and women with an insecure immigration status in the UK

Supporting survivors of sexual violence: law and practice (In partnership with the nia project)
** 5 June & 3 December 2008 9.30am-4.30pm: This new course offers participants the opportunity to develop a greater understanding of sexual violence and its impact on women together with an essential grounding in the law relating to sexual violence and an understanding of the criminal justice system including:
Forms and reality of sexual violence and its effects on women

Challenging myths and stereotypes and developing good practice guidelines around sexual violence

Consent and the new offences of rape, sexual assault, causing someone to engage in sexual activity and assault by penetration in the Sexual Offences Act 2003

The criminal justice system including the Victims' Code and criminal injuries compensation

Supporting vulnerable victims including refugee or asylum seeking women and women with an insecure immigration status in the UK

Half day courses:


Contact between children and violent fathers: in whose "best interests"?
** 19 March 2008 9.30am-1pm: 10 years after the publication of Rights of Women's groundbreaking report on domestic violence and the Children Act 1989, this interesting and accessible half-day course provides a comprehensive overview of the law on child contact with a particular emphasis on the needs of women and children who have experienced domestic violence including:
The concepts of parental responsibility, contact and residence

Applying for contact: forms and procedure

Harm and domestic violence

How does the court decide? The Welfare checklist

What can the court order and how can contact be enforced?

Public funding and supporting women who are representing themselves

Safe as houses: domestic violence - women's rights to housing and property
** 2 July 2008 9.30am-1pm: A practical overview of the housing alternatives and legal options available to women following the end of an abusive relationship this half-day course includes:
married women and civil partners' rights and how to protect them

safeguarding the home of a cohabitant

occupation orders and transferring a tenancy

homelessness, domestic violence and local authority obligations

supporting women with no recourse to public funds, Refugee and asylum seeking women

Meeting the needs of trafficked women: immigration and criminal law
** 10 september 2008 9.30am- 4.30pm: To coincide with the coming into force of the Council of Europe's Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005 in Spring 2008, which the UK has signed, this exciting new course will look at immigration and criminal law around trafficking including:
What is trafficking? The international and domestic response

The immigration position of trafficked women in the UK (including applying for asylum and the rights of women from the EEA)

Trafficking for sexual exploitation: the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and protections for survivors of sexual violence

Trafficking for purposes other than sexual exploitation (for example, domestic servitude)

Supporting trafficked women in the UK

Removing the barriers: domestic violence and securing women's position in the UK
** 23 October 2008 9.30am-1pm: Rights of Women have developed this popular course to enable participants to support women who have an insecure immigration status and are experiencing domestic violence. It offers a practical overview of immigration law and procedure including:
EEA nationals, their partners and rights on relationship breakdown

Coming to the UK to join a spouse, civil partner

Supporting a woman to make an application for indefinite leave to remain under the domestic violence rule

Challenging "No recourse to public funds"

All participants will receive a copy of our latest publication Pathways to Justice: BMER women, violence and the law.

Venue:
* NCVO, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL

Cost:
* Small voluntary sector organisations (income less than Ł500,000): Ł70 half day, Ł100 full day.
* Larger voluntary sector organisations (income Ł500,000 and above); Ł100 half day, Ł130 full day.
* Statutory sector/all others; Ł130 half day, Ł160 full day.
* Rights of Women members are entitled to a 10% discount on all courses.

For more information and to download a booking form, please go to http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/ or email training@row.org.uk

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