Post Tagged with: "Gender"

• Video: Gender and climate change

  At this weekend’s Campaign Against Climate Change Conference in SOAS there was a fascinating session on gender and climate change to coincide with the Rio Summit. Here Camden Green Party’s Natalie Bennett discusses the issues;

   

• Event: Women seeking refuge in a climate of cuts, Wednesday 23 May

  Launching the second edition of Seeking Refuge? A handbook for asylum-seeking women. Rights of Women invite you to the launch of the second edition of our handbook, Seeking Refuge? A handbook for asylum-seeking women. Join our expert panel of speakers to discuss the problems facing women with gender-based asylum and […]

   

• Pro-choice protests defend the right to choose

  Last night in Bedford Square there was the largest of an ongoing stand off between pro-choice and anti-abortion protesters outside a women’s health clinic. This video is one of a number available from Kate Belgrave who was at the protest.

   

• Where are the women? Massive gender bias in Assembly candidates

  With all the candidates announced for the London Assembly it has become clear that there is a massive under representation of women standing for office (or is that over representation of men?). Of the seven Mayoral candidates just two are women, neither of whom are standing for the three largest parties. On […]

   

• Vacancies: Action Aid, Women’s Rights Advocacy Adviser

  Women’s Rights Advocacy Adviser Salary: £35,098 – £38,327 pa pro rata (28 hours per week) HOURS: Full-time CONTRACT: 7 months fixed term contract LOCATION: London EC1R 0BJ From development finance and biofuels to tax justice and women’s rights ActionAid is playing a major role in influencing international development issues. As […]

   

• Interview: Beatrix Campbell on Conservative women and feminism in the eighties

  In the last parts of our interview with Beatrix Campbell we discussed Conservative women and then feminism in the eighties. Feminism and the eighties

   

• Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Sunday in the Square

  People may have seen in the news that anti-abortion campaigners have been picketing the clinic in Bedford Square (Bloomsbury) harassing women who are going in and generally being a pain. The Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance is a group that pickets the picket every Sunday (when the clinic is shut so there’s […]

   

• Interview: Kerry Johnson co-founder Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance

  Big Smoke met up with Kerry Johnson, co-founder of the Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance, who has been organising pro-choice vigils every Sunday against anti-abortion activists who have been harassing women outside the BPAS clinic. The Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance was set up to raise awareness of the attempts by 40 Days for […]

   

• A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant And A Prayer – 26th March

  Passionate and crackling performances by Tony award winning author of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler, actress and producer Trudie Styler, comedienne Meera Syal and more, in the West End premiere of A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT AND A PRAYER. A ground-breaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights’ […]

   

• Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance: Sundays in the Square 11th March

  This week’s Sunday in Bloomsbury Square event has a 60s theme, linking in with the 1967 Abortion Act and the current threats to a woman’s right to choose. They’ll be there from 12pm with a stand, a banner, and some 60s themed music. There may even be some vaguely 60s-themed fancy dress! […]