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I always stare at the computer in awe and admiration. With the advent of computer and internet whatever was impossible earlier has become possible. There was a time when telegram was the fastest mode. All news good or bad was sent through this. A letter from a person abroad or even in next state took a long time to reach. We always waited for the postman daily in expectation unlike now. Writing letters has become an act of past. No one is bothered about spellings. Why should someone put energy and work when spell check does it all. Now emails, facebook, orkut has taken the responsibility of bringing people together. This is article about online shops

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Sometimes a manufacturer makes a design or production mistake on a motor vehicle. A service bulletin notifies the dealer of the problem and how to resolve it. Because these free repairs are not publicized, they are called “secret warranties.” www.factory-service-bulletins.com maintains a database of service bulletins filed by manufacturers.

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Date: 4-5 December 2009 (with associated activities on 6 December)
Location: University of Manchester

*** REGISTRATION NOW OPEN ***

Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster University)
Prof. Gabriele Griffin (University of York)
Dr. Amrit Wilson (Royal Holloway)

Register by Oct 23 for Early Bird discount.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page to download the registration form and information about accommodation.

Drawing on the impact of postcolonial feminism and its enactments, this conference will examine how women are affected by political systems in a global climate, how feminism translates and moves across borders, and how feminism can be utilised as a methodology for understanding the transnational context.

Here the transnational is understood to be a complication of notions of the ‘elsewhere’, highlighting the challenges of fluidity, movement and instability whilst also paying close attention to locatedness. This is a feminism that is engaged with the woman-as-subject without making universalising claims regarding women’s experience; it both considers how gender operates and critiques categorisation. The aim of the conference is to share research on transnational feminisms between students, academics, artists and activists and to promote discussion on these themes and on future strategies/ research. An important element of the conference is that it involves participants and as such there will be workshops, a history walk and ample opportunity for debate.

Plus:
Exhibitions, Film Screenings, History Walk, Performance Evening and Workshops
Including Outwrite Magazine, Suzie ‘Ze’ Martins, Yalini Dream, ‘Abortion Democracy’ (Sarah
Diehl), ‘Performing the Border’ (Ursula Biemann), Dominique Tessier, Women Asylum
Seekers Together, and more…

Check website for updates, registration forms and accommodation information:
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/sage/transnationalfeminisms/


Date: 09 November 2009
Time: 2-5pm
Venue: TUC, Great Russell St, London
Cost: Free

A special half-day conference will explore: personal accounts, the ‘retirement cliff edge’, the state pension age, and the demise of final salary pension schemes.
How to book: The event is free but booking is essential. To register, email info@npcuk.org or call 020 7553 6510

H/T Women’s Resource Centre


Proposals to license lap dancing clubs in the same way as sex shops is about to be debated in the Lords. We have until 3rd November to make sure the Lords adopt our proposals to make licensing compulsory, not voluntary, for local authorities and to make sure venues are not exempt if they hold lap dancing less than once a month!

Get Lobbying ! Send our model letter to one, or more (!), of the key peers we have targetted below.

o Lord Bilmoria
o Baroness Neuberger
o Baroness Northover
o Lord Norton
o Baroness Uddin
o Baroness Wilkins
o Baroness Grundy
o Baroness Flathers
o Baroness Goudie
o Lord Hylton
o Baroness Jay
o Lord Listowel
o Baroness Ludford

Use our online model letter here. Please add any personal experiences of lap dancing venues and send to any of the peers listed below:


Date: Friday 30th October 2009
Time: 10am to 4.30pm
Address: womenintechnology offices, 114 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JH
Cost: £213 + VAT (This price includes a copy of the book ‘Beyond the Boys Club’).

The most successful women working in male-dominated fields know that you can’t win the game if you’re not willing to play the game. These same women understand that the best way to change the game – and make it work for them – is as a key player, not as an outsider.

In this daytime workshop, Beyond the Boys’ Club author and executive coach, Dr. Suzanne Doyle-Morris will take a interactive approach to look at how career progression, especially in male dominated fields, is a blend of aptitude and attitude, manoeuvrability, understanding office politics, coupled with self awareness and confidence. Women who get ahead are those who make key decision makers aware of their wins. When you work with men you have to learn how to play the game and get comfortable raising your profile the way they do. We need to learn how to play with the boys in order to move beyond the boys club. We should take the best of what they can teach us whilst maintaining a sense of our own integrity, individuality and independence.

This course will help you:
• Develop self-promotion skills to increase professional visibility.
• Identify strategies for career enhancement according to your values and current options.
• Improve ability to influence others and develop effective relationships.
• Increase visibility for achievements in ways that are individually authentic

If you would like more information please go to: www.womenintechnology.co.uk/proactively-polishing-your-profile where you can also download the booking form.

If you are interested in attending this course or have any questions, please contact Sarah Lilley at slilley@womenin.co.uk or on 020 7422 9213 – many thanks!



Amnesty International UK is organising a mass lobby of parliament on 4 November 2009 to lobby MPs at Westminster on the No Recourse to Public Funds Rule.

Many women come to the UK, often legally, in the hope of improving their lives. They may come on temporary work permits, student visas or spousal visas. Some women come to the UK to marry. The ‘no recourse to public funds’ rule says that a woman in this position – even if she’s married to a British citizen – is not entitled to certain state benefits, including housing benefit and income support.

But these are the benefits a woman must be able to claim to get a place in a refuge if she needs to escape violence. As a result, many newly-married women in the UK are trapped in violent marriages and even if they do muster the courage to seek help from the authorities, they are simply turned away.

The UK government has taken significant steps to address violence against women – particularly domestic violence. In its paper on domestic violence ‘Safety and Justice’, the Home Office recognised that support and accommodation to victims of domestic violence was ‘life saving and critical’. So the UK government knows it is in the wrong when it fails to protect women arriving in the UK

We believe that the government position puts the UK in breach of international human rights standards to which it has signed up. The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) says clearly that states must respect, protect and fulfil all women’s human rights, regardless of immigration status or any other factor.

What are we doing about this?

Amnesty International UK has joined its voice with the voices of these women, the refuge workers and the many black and minority ethnic women’s groups who have been campaigning and lobbying for years on this subject. We are all calling on the UK government to:

  • Allow refuges the funds they need to protection from violence to all
    women suffering abuse.
  • Provide for an exemption to the ‘no recourse’ rule to ensure women
    are not forced to remain with a violent partner.
  • Develop an integrated strategy for violence against women so as to
    minimise the chance of policy contradictions undermining women’s
    rights.

See the Women’s Resource Centres extensive list of possible actions.


Date: Wednesday 21 October 2009
Time:
7pm
Location: Brixton Library, London

After many months of research and interviewing those who knew Olive, the Remembering Olive Collective and Lambeth Archives are proud to be launching a public archive dedicated to Olive Morris and the different groups and campaigns she was part of. The collection includes Olive’s personal papers deposited by Liz Obi and over 20 oral history interviews. It will be permanently hosted at Lambeth Archives.

The event speakers include Jon Newman (Lambeth Archives), Yana Morris (Olive’s sister), Mike McColgan (Olive’s partner), a presentation about Olive’s life and the materials included in the Olive Morris Collection by Dr. Kimberly Springer (ROC member), and a performance by award-winning poet Dorothea Smartt.

The oral history and cataloguing project and the production of a publication that will be launched early in 2010, has been generously funded by an award from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project has been supported by Lambeth Archives and Gasworks. The project’s advisers and partners also include the Black Cultural Archives, Brixton Library, Lambeth Women’s Project and the British Library.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL: For information or to book tickets please contact Sonia McKenzie on 020 7926 1075 or email blackhistorymonth@lambeth.gov.uk


Date: Tuesday 13th October
Time: 9.30 – 1pm
Location: The Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B1 1BB
Influencing Local Decisions is a workshop for women – and in particular
Black and Minority Ethnic women. The aim is the look at how you can
influence the decisions that affect your community and neighbourhood. We
will be finding out about local governance is changing in Birmingham;
learning what works. and developing tactics for gaining influence in local
decisions.

The workshop will be led by Hannah Worth and Paul Slatter from Chamberlain Forum and is part of the WAITS (Women Acting in Today’s Society) Women Making Change programme which is supported by the Big Lottery Fund. It is also part of Local Democracy Week in Birmingham which is supported by BeBirmingham and Birmingham City Council.

Places are free, but numbers are limited. To book a place at the workshop
please call Rani Johal at WAITS on 0121 440 1443 or email
ranijohal@waitsaction.org


The BBC has launched an open-source project to produce a 4-part documentary series about the web, to mark its upcoming 20th birthday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution/.

To really help shape the production as well as show a female audience that women are contributing to the web (technologically, economically and socially), women need to get involved. Otherwise our contributions over the last 20 years of the web are at risk of being over-looked and going uncredited. Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/ to join the debate, or if you’d like to follow them on Twitter, the BBC Digital Revolution team are here: @bbcdigrev

H/T Women in Technology


Date: Friday 30th October 2009
Time: 10am to 4.30pm
Address: womenintechnology offices, 114 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JH
Cost: £213 + VAT (This price includes a copy of the book ‘Beyond the Boys Club’).

In this evening workshop, Beyond the Boys’ Club author and executive coach, Dr. Suzanne Doyle-Morris will take a interactive approach to look at how career progression, especially in male dominated fields, is a blend of aptitude and attitude, manoeuvrability, understanding office politics, coupled with self awareness and confidence. Women who get ahead are those who make key decision makers aware of their wins. When you work with men you have to learn how to play the game and get comfortable raising your profile the way they do.  We need to learn how to play with the boys in order to move beyond the boys club.  We should take the best of what they can teach us whilst maintaining a sense of our own integrity, individuality and independence.

This course will help you:
• Develop self-promotion skills to increase professional visibility.
• Identify strategies for career enhancement according to your values and current options.
• Improve ability to influence others and develop effective relationships.
• Increase visibility for achievements in ways that are individually authentic

If you would like more information please go to: www.womenintechnology.co.uk/proactively-polishing-your-profile where you can also download the booking form.

If you are interested in attending this course or have any questions, please contact Sarah Lilley at slilley@womenin.co.uk or on 020 7422 9213 – many thanks!


Date: Saturday, 17 October 2009
Time
: 18:00
Location: Meet at Five Ways Island, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Cost: Free entry to all events but donations very much appreciated both before October 17th and on the night.

Reclaim The Night marches started in the UK in the 1970s as a take on the US and Canadian ‘Take Back the Night’ marches. The Reclaim the Night march gives women a chance to take back the dark hours from the ‘stranger danger’ and the messages of safety that are unhelpfully directed at potential victims instead of at the aggressors.

Messages for women to stay at home, to lock themselves away, as publicised during the times of the Yorkshire ripper, and again in 2006 when five women were killed in Ipswich, do not prevent violence from occurring. Especially when you consider that the majority of women are harmed by someone they know, who is likely to be at home with them. These messages place the blame on victims who did not stay at home, who went out with friends and drank alcohol, who flirted with the man at the bar.

The Reclaim the Night march highlights that women should be able to walk the streets free from the fear of harm, and free from the fear of blame should they be harmed. That only those who commit these crimes should be blamed, and should be prosecuted and punished accordingly. Reclaim the Night Birmingham will be the time for those of us who have survived violence, or have been lucky enough to be that one in two women who won’t experience the violence, to take to the streets en masse to say no ‘No you cannot do this to us, and no we will not be silenced’.

Meet at 6pm Meeting at for a (self-defining) women only march through Edgbaston.
Rally (mixed gender) afterwards at Ladywood Community Centre with speeches from Joy Doal (Anawim), Jacky Mulveen (the Allens Croft Project), Jenny Lumsdon (Sandwell Rape Support), Shahida Choudhry (Stepping Stones, The Freedom Programme, West Midlands Women’s Networking Hub, Birmingham Feminists!).
Afterparty (mixed gender) upstairs at O’Neills on Broad Street.

Email: bham.fem@gmail.com for more info.


Date: Thursday 22nd October 2009
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Address: womenintechnology offices, 114 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JH
Cost: £57 + VAT

What do you think of when you hear ‘politics’? Machiavellian? Self-Serving? Or ‘behind the scenes influencing efforts’? Studies reveal that women place greater value on building relationships with people they like (whom they share something in common) over those that will promote their careers (strategic alliances around business issues). They also tend to focus on getting things done rather than on the larger strategic vision. And finally, the research shows that women tend toward perfectionism more than men do. They expect everyone to follow the formal rules, the plan or the official path to getting work done rather than the informal, blinding them to others’ agendas. These are our blind spots when it comes to being ‘politically savvy’.

During this training session you will learn ‘The Rules of the Game’ and how to be positively political to enhance their career development and satisfaction.

Rule #1 Like the lottery… you have to play to win
Learn how to ‘re-frame’ the concepts around politics so that you feel comfortable ‘playing the game’

Rule #2 Don’t get upset, get even
Learn how to defuse any denial or resistance you might experience related to organisational politic

Rule #3 Treat Stakeholders as they would like to be treated
Understand two political power styles and how to flex your style more effectively

Rule #4 Be yourself, but be the best self you can be
Learn how to leverage your natural style to ensure you are ‘heard’ and supported

Rule #5 A good idea alone is not enough
Learn how to ‘message’ appropriately

Rule #6 Don’t light a candle to place it under a bushel basket
Learn how to promote yourself and your team with decent boldness

Rule #7 Past performance predicts future behaviour… for women
Learn how to use your track record to tell stories about credibility and trustworthiness.

Rule #8 The world isn’t fair and the sooner you realise this, the better
Learn how to ‘level the playing field’ by spending time on ‘the right things’ instead of ‘doing things right’.

Rule #9 There are friends and there are allies
Build your network strategically.

Rule #10 Only powerful people can effect powerful change.

If you would like more information please go to our site, where you can also download the booking form.

If you are interested in participating in any or all of the webinars, or would like more information please contact Sarah Lilley at slilley@womenin.co.uk or on 020 7422 9213 – many thanks!


Speaker(s): Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE
Date/Time: 13/10/2009, 1pm
Venue: Museum of London

When it comes to the division of assets and income after divorce, England and Wales have sweeping laws. London is called the divorce capital of Europe, and English judges have transformed parliamentary law on maintenance to favour women. There is disagreement about the impact of modern gender equality. Is it fair that a husband should undertake a lifelong obligation to keep his wife on marriage, regardless of behaviour and changes in women’s status? Should spouses be free to make their own maintenance arrangements?

This is a part of the lecture series, Family Relationships and the Law since the 1960′s.
The other lectures in this series are as follows:
Divorce Law – A Disaster?
Cohabitation and the Law
Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters
Civil Partnerships
Cousin Marriage


H/T Million Women Rise – from Hannah Austin

“We are campaigning for the Welsh Assembly Government to improve their policies to tackle violence against women in Wales. 2 women a week are still dying of domestic abuse alone in Wales, and the rape conviction rate remains a shocking 8% in Wales.

Please visit our Facebook group – lots more info there: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=162717965118&ref=mf

Most importantly – PLEASE email the following letter to the Social Justice Minister, Brian Gibbons AM.

Spread the word! Thanks so much!”
______________

SEND LETTER TO: brian.gibbons@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Dear Minister

RE: INTEGRATED STRATEGY TO TACKLE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

The level of violence against women in Wales still remains very high, with one in four women suffering some from violence during their lifetime.

Though the Welsh Assembly Government has made good progress on tackling some elements of violence against women, there is no integrated, cross-governmental strategy to protect women from violence.

I am calling on you to redouble your efforts to tackle violence against women in all its forms, and ensure that the women in Wales are not less protected than women in other parts of the UK.

Only a strategy and action plan led by the Welsh Assembly Government will be able to bring together the disparate strands of public services and investment will tackle violence against women and fulfil the UN CEDAW obligations.

Violence against women blights thousands of lives in Wales each year, and its time for a whole-government approach to protect women.

Yours sincerely

[NAME]


Location: LIVERPOOL and Festival, The Box, Fact, 88 Wood St, L1 4DQ, Liverpool
Date: Friday 25 September,
Time: 2pm
Price: £7/£5

Location: LONDON, Goldsmith’s, University of London, Small Hall Cinema
Date: Tuesday 29 September
Time: 6.30pm
Price:£3

CLUB DES FEMMES Presents ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ This is how the critic Linda
Nochlin famously opened the debate about the way canonical thinking defined and still defines Western art history. For Nochlin, in 1971, in a line of art A-listers that stretched from Michelangelo to Andy Warhol, women artists were notable by their absence.

Nearly forty years on in our post-feminist age, Club des Femmes considers the role of the woman artist and wonders if the debate has ever gone away? Come with us and revisit the seventies, the debate is just starting: it’s time to engage.

PROGRAMME:

LIGHT READING
Director: Lis Rhodes. UK, 1978, 20 mins, 16mm
LIGHT READING begins in darkness as a woman’s voice is heard over a blank screen. She speaks of her search for a voice: of presence and absence, of experience and history. Her voice continues until the images appear on the screen and then it is silent. In the final section of the film she begins again – reading the images as these are moved and re-placed, describing the piecing together of the film as she tries to piece together the strands of her story. ‘She watched herself being looked at She looked at herself being watched but she could not perceive herself as the subject of the sentence…’ (Lis Rhodes).

SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN
Director: Martha Rosler. USA, 1975, 6 mins, video Martha Rosler is an important contemporary artist and feminist who uses photography, performance, writing and video to deconstruct cultural reality. Avoiding a pedantic stance, Rosler characteristically lays out visual and verbal information in a manner that allows the contradictions to gradually emerge, so that the audience can discern these disjunctions for themselves.

SHULIE
Director: Elisabeth Subrin. USA, 1997, 36 mins, video A cinematic doppelganger without precedent, Elisabeth Subrin’s Shulie uncannily and systematically bends time and cinematic code alike, projecting the viewer 30 years into the past to rediscover a woman out of time and time out of joint- and in Subrin’s words, ‘to investigate the mythos and residue of the late 1960s.’ Staging an extended act of homage as well as a playful, provocative confounding of filmic propriety, Subrin and her creative collaborator Kim Soss resurrect a little-known 1967 documentary portrait of a young Chicago art student who a few years later would become a notable figure in Second Wave feminism and the author of the radical 1970 manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. Reflecting on her life and times, Shulie functions as a prism for refracting questions of gender, race and class that resonate in our era as in hers, while through painstaking mediation, Subrin makes manifest the eternal return of film. – Mark MacElhatten and Gavin Smith, curators, Views from the Avant Garde. 35th New York Film Festival


Seminar: Sexual Violence against Women – What’s the policy?
Location: Kings Cross London
Date: 5th October
Time: 10am – 1pm

This seminar aims to increase awareness in the women’s sector of sexual and other forms of gender-
based violence and of current policy developments. Attendants will benefit from an awareness of
violence against women as part of the struggle for women’s equality. Through the seminar you can
learn how your organisation can become part of the wider debate on violence against women and
increase women’s equality.

Workshop: Sexual Violence against Women – What’s the strategy?
Location: Kings Cross, London,
Date
: 5th October
Time: 2pm – 4.30pm

This workshop will focus on how the women’s sector is contributing to policy and shaping developments on sexual violence to protect women’s rights. Attendants will:
• Learn about the process of influencing policy
• Share your thoughts on what more needs to be done
• Develop your own response or be part of our ongoing work

Both seminar and workshop are free however if you register and do not turn up you will be liable for a £50 fine.

Please contact Rights of Women for further information and to book a place:
Tel: 020 7251 6575 or email: mina@row.org.uk


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Leading Article: p.1- 4
Key US cases relating to women asylum seekers

Sector Update p.5-6
The UK Government has recently produced two reports for international bodies, detailing its progress
relating to women’s equality.  Both fail to cover women asylum seekers’ issues.

Significant Legal Issues p.6-7
Assessing whether an asylum seeker is a lesbian – NR (Jamaica) v SSHD 2009 EWCA Civ 825
Country Guidance Case: Trafficked women from China – HC & RC (Trafficked women) China CG [2009] UKAIT 00027

International News p.8-11
Afghanistan: Women’s rights diminishing
Jordan: Tribunals should not be a substitute for addressing ‘honour killings’
Bangladesh: Child Marriage
The Philippines: Addressing human trafficking
Sierra Leone: Sexual violence defies new laws
Sudan: Women deliberately targeted in attacks

UK Courses p.11-12

New Publications p.12-13

Charter Update p.14