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Womensphere - February 2008

List of postings:

• Jack Straw scraps reform of prostitute law to avoid prison officer strike
• Manager, North Devon Womens Aid
• Chair of Trustees, Domestic Violence Intervention Project (London)
• Gender Equality Gets a Drop of the Funding Bucket
• UN campaign takes on violence against women
• £10m to battle domestic violence in Scotland
• Report calls for changes to rape coverage in the media
• Sexual Violence Policy Monitoring Sub-group of the Women’s National Commission - February 2008 - Prostitution Q & A
• European Feminist Forum (EFF) June conference in Poland cancelled
• Crossing borders, across genders - feminist issues in the 2000s
• Research into working conditions, everyday experience, strategies and policy development in women’s organisations
• WLUML Vacancy: Finance and Administrative Officer
• Jobcentre ad seeking women to pose for sleazy webcams
• Statement from the Feminist Coalition Against Prostitution (FCAP) regarding Steve Wright found guilty of murdering five young women involved in prostitution in Ipswich
• The Solicitor-General Vera Baird, QC responds to claims by Women Against Rape that the Government hasn’t done enough to secure justice for rape victims
• Abolish No Recourse to Public Funds; End Violence Against Women!
• Helping Mansfield and Ashfield Women’s Aid
• ‘Make the Change’ domestic violence programme to be expanded
• ‘Inspire a Change - Stop Domestic Violence’, in aid of the Mayo Women’s Refuge
• The Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) International has stressed the urgent need to educate people on the use of condoms
• Bush Says He Would Change Global AIDS Abstinence-Only Earmark if Proven Ineffective
• UN and Campaigners Highlight Grim Reality Of ‘Happy Trafficking’
• Government introduces measures to check trafficking in state in India
• Women protest ‘attack’ on abortion in Italy
• Halt Woman’s Execution for ‘Witchcraft’ in Saudi Arabia
• Muslim women in Australia speak up about domestic violence
• Kenya’s “women in white” to circle peace talks
• womensphere - layout changed again!!
• IWD Events 2008 - have their own blog
• SAVE SBS PICKET
• Truth About Rape - campaign re-launch
• Ladyfest comes to Goldsmiths! includes benefit gig for Poppy Project
• Bristol production of the Vagina Monologues to raise money for V-Day and Women’s Aid
• Housewives should be paid £30,000 for doing the cooking, laundry and childcare
• A new approach to women’s issues is needed says the Conservative Party
• Mothers are to be given new powers to check whether people who have access to their children have convictions for paedophile offences
• Children And Domestic Violence in Wales
• 30 saved from sex traffickers in Scotland
• Trafficked Women Deserve More Than Just Talk
• The African Network of Women Peace Negotiators created
• Many maternal deaths worldwide preventable-study
• Egypt: Are attitudes to rape beginning to change?
• “Hidden Violence is a Silent Rape”
• Nepalese women trafficked to India returning home with high rates of HIV/AIDS
• Bahrain: Why women ‘are suffering silently’
• The National Muslim Women’s Advisory group (NMWAG) formally launched by the Prime Minister
• Refuges for minority ethnic women must not be closed
• Government pledge to cut domestic violence ‘has failed’
• Police were called to almost 6,000 domestic violence incidents in Greater Manchester in a month, new figures have revealed.
• Bury Women’s Aid management team resign - refuge to close
• Innocent victims of the legal system - children of imprisoned women put up for adoption
• Nigeria: Women and the Line Between Mental Breakdown and Crime
• Manila women fight contraception ban
• Protest the Closure of Zanan Magazine - feminist publication in Iran
• Niger: Fall in rate of female genital mutilation/cutting
• Too scared to tell - sexual violence in Darfur
• Rape Is Weapon in Kenyan Violence
• Ghana: Choose Women As Presidents, Not Running Mates
• Botswana: Domestic Violence Bill Sails Through Parliament
• African women slam abuse of females with HIV/AIDS
• Uganda: ‘Domestic Voilence Rampant’
• Funds crunch threatens the effective implementation of the Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (PWDVA) across India
• Prostitution Policy: New Directions
• Domestic Violence Rise After Scotland Loss To Italy
• 13-year-old girl raped by ‘groom’ after her family calls off marriage (Dublin)
• Number of rapists who escape jail doubles
• Sharia ‘law is reactionary and extremely discriminatory against women’
• Volunteer Counsellors Wanted For Rape Crisis Service - Southampton
• West Cornwall Womens Aid Vacancy
• Bromley Women’s Aid Vacancy
• Asian Women’s Advisory Service Ltd (Awas) Vacancies
• Helen Bamber Foundation Benefit Event Appeal
• 9th March Feminist Gathering in London
• FEM 08 announced!
• Southall Black Sisters is under threat of closure - please support us
• Vacancy at WLUML (London based)
• Women’s Asylum News - Issue 72 February 2008
• Pornography contributing to atrocities against women in the Congo say GAD
• African women slam abuse of females with HIV/AIDS
• Your signature brings $1 to help end violence against women
• One woman killed by domestic violence every hour in Russia
• Tragic reality of prostitution (Wales)
• 70 brothels in Northern Ireland claim by Alliance MLA
• Prostitute claims unfair dismissal after choosing clients, refusing to perform oral sex (South Africa)
• Pacific communities hit by prostitution act
• Mothers day event at the Young Vic - highlighting mothers and children in detention
• Rape Crisis Scotland Conference - Tuesday 4th March 2008
• Police to shake up rape-case tactics in Scotland
• Sex trafficking victims rescued (Bedfordshire)
• £26.8 Million to improve access to contraception
• More support for Councils to deliver equal pay
• Nigerian Feminist Forum - Building a Network
• Does the ANC think prostitution should be legalised?
• Turkish Lawmakers Vote to Ease Curbs on Headscarf
• Women are gaining in importance in far-right ranks, a new study in Germany shows
• Sucess for women candidates in Taiwan or for political dynasties?
• Stimulus Plan Falls Short in Female-Friendly Audit in US
• Iraq has million-woman social time-bomb
• A million women will march Saturday 8th March 2008
• 53,000 requests for domestic violence services in a single day, over 7,700 unmet through lack of funding in the US
• Engaging Young Men In Combating Violence Against Women
• Male campaigner against male violence against women wins award
• Honour crime ‘is underestimated’ in the UK
• URGENT: Stop the stoning to death of two women in Iran!
• Reproductive Rights - women’s rights vary in different countries
• Kenyan Women’s Consultation Group on the Current Crisis in Kenya
• Sudanese Women Meet At African Union Summit
• Tyson banquet cancelled after pressure from Women’s Groups