Diary
North Wales Conference: “Are We There Yet…?”
Tuesday 23rd September 2008, Celtic Royal Hotel, Caernarfon (10.00am – 3.00pm)
Shân Ashton (Bangor University) and Rhian Connick (National Federation of Women’s Institutes) will be speaking.
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Light a Candle Service
Wednesday 26th November, Llandaff Cathedral (10.30am – 11.30am)
Multi-faith ecumenical service to mark the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women
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Forced marriage: New support material for schools
The Government is committed to work with schools, LAs and communities to do all it can to tackle the issue of forced marriage, which is a form of child abuse. New materials have been produced to raise awareness of forced marriage.
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Booktime 2008 - National Year of Reading
Booktime is an exciting programme from education and publishing company Pearson in association with independent charity Booktrust and supported by the DCSF
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The Department for Children, Schools and Families.
The DCSF is pleased to support the Department of Health's Antibiotic Resistance Challenge for Key Stage 3 students. The challenge is to design a poster to encourage friends and family not to go to their GP for antibiotics for coughs and colds.
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2011 is the centenary year of International Women’s Day
2009 and 2010 will see increasing global activity in the lead up. Many countries are already planning events and projects
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Female financial talent conference (29 September)
Aurora's wheretowork is pleased to support the forthcoming KPMG sponsored Why Women Mean Business Conference on 29 September held by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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Law in the Making Influence and change in the legislative process
Wednesday 16 th July 2-5.30, Portcullis House, Westminster with the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP
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Forced Marriage of People with learning disabilities
Wednesday 23rd July 1-4.30 p.m. Meeting room 8, NCVO Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL.
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Adidas Women’s 5k challenge-Sunday 7th September 2008
BPW members who would like to support Endometriosis UK can enter at http/www.womenschallenge.co.uk/onlineentry.
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PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS SEMINAR
Discrimination law can raise complicated and costly issues for all employers.
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Capita’s 7th Conference
Tackling the Trafficking of Women and Children
Monday 14th July 2008 - Central London
Chaired by: Lisa Nandy, Policy Adviser, The Children’s Society
With the planned ratification of the European Council Convention on Action Against Trafficking for 2008 and a commitment from Government to tackle the problem. The time is right to bring together good practice from all sides to ensure real progress is made.
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The Centre for Strategy and Communication -
Women in Management
1 day course: 29 August 2008
A brand new course has been launched and is taking place on 29 August 2008 at the Centre’s Central London training suite.
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Excellent Partnerships in the North East
An event that’s all about working in partnership, for those in the know, and those who want to know more
Wynyard Hall, Tees Valley
17 and 18 June 2008
17 June - 12.00 noon to 7.30pm
18 June - 9.00am to 3.00pm
This unique event offers a chance to ‘drop in’ and experience a range of informative.
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W.I.N. 2008 global leadership Forum in Sitges, Spain
(17) 18 - 20 (21) September, Vision and Vitality: Moving into the future.
The event is designed for people who want to be part of a future based on authenticity, feminine and global awareness.
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If ‘I’ Can Make a Difference Then So Can ‘We’!!”
The award winning ‘If I Can…You Can’ programme, aimed at raising aspirations and tackling stereotyping, gave birth to a ‘hybrid’ recently!
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Gender and Education Association 7th International Conference
Gender: Regulation and Resistance in Education - 2009 Gender and Education Association 7th International Conference
25-27 March 2009, Institute of Education, University of London
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2008 North East Equality Awards
We delighted to announce the launch of the 2008 North East Equality Awards!
The 2008 Awards sees more categories, more sponsors and expects, yet again, record breaking applications. There should be a category that suits your organisation whatever its size!
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CEDAW – Convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
Nikki Bennett-Willetts sent the views of BPW members to the Women’s National Commission as part of their “shadow” report for the United Nations. In the summer, the United Kingdom government will be examined on the report they sent to the Committee of the United Nations which deals with the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women – usually called CEDAW. The report will be considered by the 41st CEDAW session in New York from 30th June to 18th July 2008.
The U. K. government will have to show it complies with the Convention on women’s human rights. As some feel there is a tendency for any government to overplay their successes and underplay their failures, the committee will also look at “shadow” reports at the same time which may highlight concerns from women in the UK. BPW has been asked for its views for the shadow report. This shadow report will be presented to the UN in April and the WNC will have a team of women backing up the report at the July meeting. Attendees will be able to watch discussion on the report and contribute to the discussion. BPW members wishing to attend should contact Nikki.
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BPW President meets Harriet Harman and Barbara Follett
Meeting with Ministers’ for Women
Nikki Bennett-Willetts, President of BPW, met with Women National Commission Chair Baroness Gould and the Ministers’ for Women, Harriet Harman and Barbara Follett to talk about a broad range of equality issues. BPW was chosen as one of the Big Six organisations to bring the views of BPW members before the ministers. The items discussed included women in prison and implementation of the recommendations of the Corston report, tackling the gender pay gap as well as the need for an integrated strategy for violence against women. Harriet Harman sent a personal note to Nikki to say how much she valued the meeting and hoped to meet up with her again very soon.
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Infertility Network UK (INUK)
IVF is 30 years old this year and Professor Robert Edwards will be the inaugural lecturer at the talk bearing his name. The event will be in central London on National Infertility Day, July 19th 2008. 700 people went last year and registration is live. The keynote speaker will be Professor Andre van Steirteghem. See www.nationalinfertilityday.com for more information.
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World Federation of Methodist & Uniting Church Women
Saturday 27th September: A day focussing on Global Partnership. How can we as Christian women help to implement UN Millennium Development Goal 8: "Develop Global Partnerships for development"? This will be held in Stoke-on-Trent & is open to anyone interested in the work and aims of the World Federation of Methodist & Uniting Church Women. More information available from Jill Baker ejillbaker@btinternet.com
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