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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
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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 [...]
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Sabrina Chapadjiev, editor of Live Through This (Seven Stories Press, May 2008) will give her only London talk on the relationship between creativity and self-destruction, as part of a UK tour.
Live Through This is a fearless exploration of women’s silent rage, the power that can come from internal struggle, and the possibility of transforming this [...]
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A new report published by the Fawcett Society’s Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System (1) finds widespread discrimination in practices and attitudes towards women across the criminal justice system. (2) The Macpherson report demonstrated how institutional racism was affecting criminal justice agencies. (3) Today’s report places institutional sexism firmly on the agenda.
Key Statistics:
Female [...]
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The photographer, Sonalle, has recently completed a photo project called Ethnic Minority Domestic Violence Survivors (you can see images on her website). She is now working on a new project called ‘Ethnic Minorities Coming Out. She wants to start taking photographs this month and would like to meet people at all stages of the coming [...]
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The Sheila McKechnie Foundation, who promote, campaign and support campaigners working to make a lasting social change, have launched a new award to recognise women who are making a difference in the world today.
While many women do enjoy great freedom and success, that’s simply not true for all women. New for 2009, this award will recognise women [...]
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Date: July 1st, 200
Time: 10am – 4pm
Location: The Quad, Derby
Do the Right Thing have organised their second annual day of effective use of the art when working within domestic violence.
Workshops include, music, dance, performance, poetry, drama, art therapy, writing, film and more.
We all know the depressing and challenging stats on domestic violence. It is in [...]
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Event: Women’s Studies Summer School, College of Education and Lifelong Learning, Bangor University
Saturday & Sunday, 11 & 12 July, 2009
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 25, 26 & 27 September 2009
9.30 – 4.30 on each day
Gender, Equality and Diversity is a 30 credits module on the well-established MA Women’s Studies course at Bangor University. We examine policy and practice in the area of equality and diversity, particularly in relation [...]
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Engender are looking for 3 new members to join the board in the governance of the organisation. The board meets on a Saturday 6 times a year.
To join the Board you simply need to be committed to helping achieve the
aims and goals of Engender. Board members are expected to do this in the
following [...]
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Manchester Town Hall is currently displaying a series of pictures taken by 20 refugee women in the area who were asked to take pictures of things that inspired them and gave them strength to carry on in adversity. The Manchester Evening News report
Antonia Dunn, of the British Red Cross, said: “The group of women come [...]
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