Economic Empowerment
Source: Women's Sport In Africa
Date: 7 March 2011
Location: United Kingdom, Oxford
Catherine Ndereba. Tegla Loroupe. Caster Semenya. These names are widely recognised both in Africa and around the world. However, despite the importance of sport in the lives of many Africans, women's sport is an undeveloped area of academic research. In order to create a forum for an interdisciplinary discussion of this topic, a conference devoted to 'Women's Sport in Africa' will take place at the University of Oxford on 7 March 2011.
The organisers invite papers that offer new accounts and interpretations about how women's sport has emerged in Africa, and especially encourage authors to consider how women's sport might serve as a lens through which to explore other social and economic themes.
Key questions include, but are not limited to: How might we try to explain the relative success or not of women's sport in different places? Were there any particular periods of expansion or of decline, and how can these be explained? How do national politics influence the development of women's sport? What is the role of the state, either in actively promoting the development of womens sport or in hindering it? How can we understand the historical development of women's sport in Africa in relation to other economic and social trends, and processes such as urbanisation, globalisation, and rising/falling living standards? What is the relationship between women's sports and men's sports? How has that relationship changed and how can we explain such a change? To what extent are international relationships in women's sport shaped by inequality, power, and colonial or post-colonial relations? How, and to what extent, is women's sport in Africa integrated into sport at the global level?
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Date: 5 March 2011
Location: United Kingdom, London
"We are at a threshold. We are going to see change. If we can create the vision in our heart, it will spread. As women of wisdom we cannot be divided. As bringers of light, we have no choice but to join together." ~ Agness Baker Pilgrim
MILLION WOMEN RISE UNCUT 2011
Saturday 5 March 2011
Because Male Violence Continues, So Too Does Million Women Rise.
This year we will also be celebrating 100 years International Women's Day
JOIN US!
12pm Meet Hyde Park (Speakers Corner End Nearest Tube: Marble Arch)
1.30pm set off - Marching through Oxford St/Regents St to Trafalgar SQ
3.30 – 5.30pm Rally and Celebration in Trafalgar Square (Nearest Tubes: Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, and Charing Cross)
5pm - 1am Food and Networking Party at The 52 Club, http://www.the52club.co.uk/,
52 Gower Street WC1E6EB, please note this is a wheelchair accessible venue
Food, performances, swimming pool, DJs and chill-out space.
Suggested Donation
£5 low waged
£12 high waged
Or what you can afford
This is an All Women Event Only
Join The Million Women Rise Movement for an International All Women's March and Rally in Trafalgar Square, Central London
5th March 2011
TOGETHER WE WILL END MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Because male violence continues, so too does Million Women Rise.
Trusted friend – The women will once again be rising on Sat 5th March demanding an end to male violence against women and children in all it's forms in the UK and Internationally. Last year approx 8,000 women marched through central London – lets join forces and spread the word.
Million Women Rise
By the time you have read this email thousands more women will be raped, beaten and murdered.
FACTS AND FIGURES
The Reality in the UK Today
Two women are murdered every week by their partner or ex partner.
Only 5% of rapes reported to the police result in the perpetrator being convicted in court.
250 cases of forced marriage are reported each year.
One woman a month is murdered in the name of ‘so called’ honour.
1 in 3 local authorities in the UK do not have rape crisis centres.
Fewer than 1 in 10 local authorities have specialised support services for ethnic minority women.
Over 20,000 girls could be at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the UK.
Internationally
It is estimated that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read.
In Lithuania, 20 to 50 percent women sexually exploited through prostitution are believed to be minors.
Each year, 2 million girls between the age of 5-15 are coerced, abducted or trafficked into sexual exploitation.
It is estimated that 1 in every 3 women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
Among women aged 15-44 years, gender-based violence accounts for more death and disability than the combined effects of cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war.
WE NEED YOU TO JOIN US. EVERY WOMEN ATTENDING IS ANOTHER VOICE TO BE HEARD AND TO SPEAK OUT FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT BE THERE TO SPEAK OUT FOR THEMSELVES.
Women Uncut
Million Women Rise is outraged about recent funding cuts have impacted the women’s sector with many vital women’s services losing their funding.
Cuts mean that there will be less protection for the most vulnerable of women from male violence.
The crisis in capitalism has led to these sever cuts in services for women and children from basic refuge provision to cuts in legal aid, all denying women and children safety and justice. The cuts are risking even more women's lives and the need to join together is as vital and urgent as ever
History has shown that Cuts will disproportionately affect black women, women in poverty, women with disabilities, and women with no recourse more than any other group of women.
We encourage women to wear red, and/or green.
The color red is most often associated with power, passion, courage, loyalty, honor, success, fortune, fertility, and happiness,
For MWR it symbolizes the colour of Woman and her blood, which contains life, courage, respect, dignity and protection
Green is life. Abundant in nature, green signifies growth, renewal, health, and environment. Green is also associated with regeneration, fertility and rebirth, environmental protection and social justice
Please go to www.millionwomenrise.com to sign our statement of demands or to make a donation. We are a grassroots movement and so we rely on your help to make this march happen.
Contact us for more information about Million Women Rise.
Million Women Rise
C/o WRC,
Ground Floor East,
33-41 Dallington St. East,
London
EC1V 0BB
Mobile Contact No: 07727 419 634
http://www.millionwomenrise.com/
http://millionwomanrise.blogspot.com/
EACH SISTER BRING A SISTER AND SPREAD THIS INVITE WIDE AND FAR....THANK YOU
IN SISTERHOOD AND SOLIDARITY
TOGETHER WE WILL END THIS VIOLENCE AGAINST US!
a mothers saying...
One Woman, One body, One song, One Love, One people
Source: Pambazuka
Date: 7-8 December 2010
Location: South Africa, Johannesburh
The Commission for Gender Equality has issued an invite for people to attend a two-day public hearing on gender transformation in the workplace.
Commission for Gender Equality: Hearing on Gender transformation in the workplace
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) is an independent stateinstitution established in terms of Chapter 9 of the Constitution Act
No. 108 of 1996 of the Republic of South Africa. The powers and functions of the CGE are outlined in the Commission on Gender Equality
Act, No 39 of 1996. The CGE is charged with a broad mandate to promote respect for gender equality and the protection, development
and attainment of gender equality, and to make recommendations to Parliament on any legislation affecting the status of women in South
Africa. Furthermore, the CGE has the power to monitor, investigate, research, educate, lobby, advise and report on issues concerning
gender equality, and is empowered to subpoena and litigate against public and private sector entities where necessary.
Recent Employment Equity Commission (EEC), Business Women’s Association (BWA) and the Public Service Commission (PSC) research
findings into transformation in the workplace reveals that both the public and private sector are performing very poorly with regard to
transformation from gender and disability perspectives, despite a comprehensive array of Constitutional provisions and mechanisms,
ratification of international and regional treaties, and domestication of these into national legislation. In accordance therefore with its
powers outlined in the CGE Act, the CGE intends to convene a two-day public hearing with a sample of Director Generals (DGs) from the
public sector, and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from the private sector, for them to account for the slow pace of gender transformation
in the workplace, and inadequate promotion of women with disabilities, gender equality and women empowerment.
These hearings will also serve as a platform to establish what challenges are being experienced and measures put in place by
government departments and the private sector, to comply with employment equity requirements relating to gender and disability, as
provided for in the Employment Equity Act No.55 of 1998, and the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act No.4
of 2000. The hearings will be convened during the period of 16 Days of Activism on no Violence against Women and Children, in recognition
of the fact that discrimination in the workplace constitutes economic abuse against women.
The CGE therefore invites you to attend this two-day public hearing, to observe Directors-General and Chief Executive Officers from a
sample of state departments and private companies, appearing before the Commission and accounting for gender transformation in their
institutions. We have created an opportunity within the programme for participants to raise issues of concern in response to presentations.
We have enclosed for your information the programme for the hearing, as well as the set of questions to which DGs and CEOs are required to respond. Details of the hearing are as follows:
Date: 7-8 December 2010
Venue: Constitutional Court Auditorium Constitution Hill, Braamfontein, Johannesburg
RSVP: Ms. Letty Busisiwe Nxumalo
Tel: (011) 403-7182
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Source: Intelligence Transfer Center (ITC)
Date: 23-24-25 February 2011
Location: South Africa: Johannesburg
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Source: Pambazuka
Date: 24-25-26 June 2011
Location: Morocco, Fez
With the growing dominance of the Internet, blog, chat and mobile telephony, the great 'big bang' of the new media has begun. Communication is rapidly changing and becoming mobile, interactive, personalized and multi-channel. This extraordinary revolution is affecting the basic structure of Mediterranean societies, especially those in the south.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
By the Isis Center for Women & Development
http://www.isiscenter.com
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
WOMEN & NEW MEDIA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
ISIS CENTER FOR WOMEN & DEVELOPMENT
June 24, 25, 26, 2011 - Fez, Morocco - Palais des Congres
With the growing dominance of the Internet, blog, chat and mobile telephony, the great "big bang" of the new media has begun. Communication is rapidly changing and becoming mobile, interactive, personalized and multi-channel. This extraordinary revolution is affecting the basic structure of Mediterranean societies, especially those in the south, and is raising various discussions and debates that profoundly impact women: the rapid transformation of the boundaries between the public and the private spaces, the relationship between new technology, orality and women’s literature, changes in the relationship between written and oral languages, the increasing use of mother tongues (mainly oral) in the field of education, and the challenges of new transmissions of women’s knowledges.
These issues are the five main axes of the International Congress Forum on “Women and New Media in the Mediterranean Region”, to be held on June 24, 25 and 26, 2011 at the Palais des Congrès, Fez, Morocco:
1. The transformation of the relationship "gender and public space / private space" in the era of new media
2. New media, orality and literature Women
3.Femmes, written languages and mother tongues
4. The new media and education
5. The challenge of new transmissions of women's knowledge
Papers may be in Arabic, French or English and will last 15-20 minutes.
The deadline for receiving abstracts is March 1, 2011.
The successful participants will be notified by March 31, 2011, and the completed papers need to be emailed send before June 1, 2011.
Participants are responsible for their trip and lodging expenses.
Contact Information:
Fatima Sadiqi - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies (MA, PhD)
Co-Founder of International Institute for Languages & Cultures (INLAC)
Director of the Isis Center for Women and Development - Fez, Morocco
http://www.isiscenter.com/Presentation.php
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