International Women’s Day 2009

The Tricycle Theatre 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR
Box Office 0207 328 1000 – nearest tube Kilburn on the Jubilee line

Tickets selling fast BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

TricycIe Theatre http://www.tricycle.co.uk/current-programme-pages/cinema-program/cinema-special-events/images-of-black-women-film-festival/

Images Of Black Women
Website http://www.imagesofblackwomen.com/
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=49812842975

Festival passes available at just £31.50 for the whole weekend at reduced cost.
Call Now For More Information Tricycle Box Office 0207 328 1000.

Hosts for the Directors Q&A Panels

Radio Presenter Elayne Smith Caldwell (DJ Elayne) Colourful Radio plus Dami Akinnusi Director of the recently released successful Malcom X documentary will be quiz masters on our “Director’s Q&A Panel”.

Join us at the Tricycle for a great weekend of film, and fun.

Kenyan Film Director Wanuri Kahiu flies into London to attend the European Premiere of her film “From A Whisper” on FRIDAY 27TH at 8PM which features in the Images of Black Women Film Festival at the Tricycle

Johnny Mad Dog Best Film For Children’s Rights
Sunday March 29th 4:30pm – 6:30pm (97mins.)
by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
£6.00/£5.00

And Don’t Forget Afrosaxon Documentary Sunday 29th, Alma’s Rainbow & Secret Life Of Bees both on Saturday 28th.

And for those budding film maker, directors, and producers, if you ever wanted to know ho you can fund a project, come to our DFG workshop, ” Documentary Film Making” where sponsors for the workshop the Innovatory will tell you how to access funding for your projects, whilst DFG will tell you how to get the best from your production. Tickets are just a £6.00 investment for a workshop that could change your life in the world of film. BOOK NOW Tricycle Box Office 0207 328 1000

Come and join us for this fascinating weekend, when we look forward to meeting you for debate on our celebrity panels, fun at our films, and education at our workshop. You can see the true talent of Black Female Film makers, not to be seen anywhere else. Enjoy the film and network with like minded, and influential women in film.

Buy your tickets now:
Tricycle Box Office Tel: 0207 328 1000.
Festival Enquiries: 0203 177 3904 or
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See earlier posting about Image Of Black Women Film Festival 2009 – African Descent Women In Cinema – 5th Anniversary (until 29th)

GLAWN celebrating International Women’s Day [IWD] in Waterloo, London.

On Saturday 21st March 2009 with a workshop on “Women and the Environment”

Issues to be discussed
* Pollution
* Sustainable Development
* Health in general
* Climate Change

The event will be held at Living Space, 1 Coral Street, Waterloo, London SE1 7BE

From: 2:00pm – 4:30pm

Buses: 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, 168, 171, 172, 188, 243, 507

Trains/Tube: Elephant and Castle, North Lambeth and Waterloo

For further information contact GLAWN on 020 7928 2800, Mobile:07799857625, Email: info@glawn.org.uk

All Welcome

Background information:

As part of our continuing support for International Women’s Week, KRWO are holding a conference to raise the awareness of issues around polygamy in this country and in the Middle East.

Over the last 17 years of Kurdish self-rule some of most barbaric violations of women’s rights have continued and continue to affect the lives of over two million women in Kurdistan Iraq. Women and girls continue to be subjected to forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation, domestic violence as the norm and honour killing. All of these violations of a women’s right to be free of inhuman and degrading treatment, not to mention the right to life, have been met by almost complete silence by the Kurdish government.

In the new Personal Status Law brought into effect by the Kurdistan Parliament in October 2008 renewed the right of men to enter into polygamous marriages. Breathing new life into the history of polygamy which is tied directly to the subjugation of women and violates the basic principles of equality between men and women as understood in International Law.

In the UK since Muslim marriages are not legally recognised, some Muslim men have religious marriages and marry more than one woman while remaining within the boundaries of UK law. This situation, Lady Warsi, the shadow minister for community cohesion, argues is the result of an inappropriate concern for cultural sensitivities.
This conference has been organised with a view towards ending polygamous marriages in this country and abroad, and eradicating violence against women.

Let’s make International Women’s Day on March 8 – a day against polygamy!

Saturday 28th March 2009 from 10.30am – 2pm

London South Bank University
Abbey Conference Centre
Castle Lecture Theatre
London Road Building
100-116 London Road
SE1 6LN

Conference Programme:

10:30 – 11:00 Registration and Refreshments

11:00 – 11:15 Welcome and Introduction

Conference Chair: Gona Saed – Kurdistan Refugee Women Organisation

11:15 – 12:30 Speakers:

Sawsan Salim – Director, Kurdistan Refugee Women Organisation
Reprentative – Kurdistan Regional Government UK
Gerry Campbell – Detective Superintendent, Metropolitan Police (tbc)
Dr Ghayas Siddiqui – Muslim Parliament of Great Britian

12:30 – 13.00 Q&A

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14.00 – 14:45 Speakers:

Rezan Jalal – Kurdistan Women’s Union
Houzan Mahmoud – Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
Dashti Jamal – Iraqi Refugee Organisation

14:45 – 15.15 Q&A

15:30 – End

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By tube – our closest stations is Elephant & Castle on the Bakerloo and Northern line.

By bus – numbers 1, 12, 35, 40, 45, 53, 63, 68, 100, 133, 148, 155, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 196, 333, 344, 360, 363, 453, 468, C10 and P5.

By car – parking in Central London is very difficult and it is not possible to park in the University grounds or the surrounding roads.

E-mail: waviolence@ukonline.co.uk
Website: http://www.womenaginstviolenceuk.org

MAMA AFRICA:

A host of wonderful women celebrate International Women’s Month African Style backed by the inimitable Club Skaaville Lively up crew.

MAYA SONA JOBARTEH – brilliant Kora /songwriter of impeccable Gambian heritage whose debut ‘ Afro Acoustic Soul ‘ garnered rave reviews,
Pan supremos VANYA REID & DOLPHINA JAMES (Engine Room Collective),
effortless vocals from acclaimed Ghanaian PAULINA ODURO
and intoxicating South African Acapella from BONOLO led by Shikisha co-founder Ruby Serame with MEGUMI MESAKU (Japan) – dubbed the world’s greatest Ska saxophonist, who brings new verve to the African stage
all alongside RAY CARLESS‘ impossibly tight Club Skaaville band +

DJ TJOMGZ, DJ Debbie and other female selectors.
Dancing impossible to resist!

March 20th 2009 from 8pm – late £5.00
Food, Bargain Bar, Covered smoking balcony, Taxis easily called

Inn on the Green, 3-5 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL
02089625757 / http://www.iotg.co.uk / http://tinyurl.com/b32873 (map)
Find us on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/b8ycdl
Bus 7,15,23,52,295
Tube Ladbroke Grove

info: womaatt@yahoo.co.uk

One hundred portraits of women in science, engineering and medicine will be displayed at Imperial College London from Monday 9 March to celebrate International Women’s Day and the UK’s growing community of female researchers.

100 Women – 100 Visions has been designed and commissioned by Imperial’s Student Society for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology and includes photos of both staff and students. The photographs will be on public display throughout the week in the College’s main entrance on Exhibition Road, South Kensington Campus until 13th March.

The event is organised by Electrical and Electronic Engineering PhD student Ellin Saunders and Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD student Eirini Spentza. Ellin says:

“We wanted to illustrate the real diversity of individuals who study and work here, in order to help change the perceptions of this historically male-dominated environment. Women are still generally under-represented – particularly higher up in the academic ranks – but there is an excitement about the future among us and a commitment to change across College which we felt was important to capture and communicate.”

The portraits celebrate the growing community of female researchers
The portraits were taken by photographer Jackie King, recipient of the ‘British Professional Photographer of the Year’ and ‘UK Portrait Photographer of the Year’ awards in 2005.

Ellin adds: “Our inspiration to take one hundred portraits comes from the women at Imperial College London themselves. They are an inspiring group of people. We wanted to create a colourful series that would capture the influx of the next generation as well as senior members of staff who have already had a profound impact on their fields through world-leading research. The creative aspect of this project is also a reflection of the fact that science and engineering is about more than numbers and formulas and is far from dry or boring.”

The event also offers the opportunity to hear from Imperial’s Rector Sir Roy Anderson, who will officially open the exhibition, and Professor Dot Griffiths, Chair of the Academic Opportunities Committee, set up in 1998 to ensure a level playing field for female academics.

Professor Griffiths says: “Imperial College is fortunate in having so many talented women in science, engineering and medicine and we are committed to removing barriers and creating an environment which supports and encourages them at every stage of their careers.”

The project is funded by the Imperial College Union, the Academic Opportunities Committee, the Academic Ambassadors for Women, the Equalities Unit and the Faculties of Natural Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

International Women’s Day is marked on Sunday 8 March. For more information about the exhibition please see: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/eventssummary/event_2-3-2009-9-47-49

http://media-newswire.com/release_1087314.html

International women’s day meeting – 8 March

London Socialist Party will host an afternoon event on Sunday 8 March about Rosa Luxemburg’s life and politics, including discussion, a film and food.

The event runs from 12noon to 5pm in the Fenner Brockway room at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1.
Call 020 8988 8785 for details.

All welcome.
£2 waged & £1 unwaged / low-waged.

Invited speakers and performers background herstory
The speakers and performers are listed in alphabetical order.

Anna van Heeswijk, Object, London, England

Anna van Heeswijk has been working for Object for coming up to a year and a half as their Grassroots Coordinator. She started up monthly activist meetings in London in December 2008 and has encouraged and supported the development of feminist activism across the country. This has included helping to set up a regional branch in Leeds, organising National Days of Action for activists around the country who oppose the mainstreaming of the sex industry through the licensing of lap dancing clubs like cafes, and supporting local groups to protest at Party Conferences to urge the government to impose tougher licensing laws for lap dancing clubs. She has organised and run protests outside the Houses of Parliament, City Hall, the Lap Dancing Association Awards Ceremony and the Spearmint Rhino Christmas Party all with placards, musical instruments, songs and chants stating – ‘Women not Sex Objects’, and ‘Women’s bodies are not for sale!’.

http://www.object.org.uk

Annika Spalding, Birmingham Women’s Aid, Birmingham, England

Annika is a Floating Support & Outreach Worker at Birmingham & Solihull Women’s Aid. She also volunteers on the helpline for the Rape & Sexual Violence Project in Birmingham. Having spent her childhood growing up with domestic violence, Annika is determined to support as many women as possible, and pay back some of the kindness she received as a child in refuge. An active member of the Birmingham Feminists, and more recently Birmingham Fawcett Society group, Annika believes a difference can be made in the world, one woman and family at a time.

http://www.bswaid.org

Dana Anderson, War on the Streets, London, England

The War On The Streets project is a mobile workshop which promotes unity and is dedicated in the fight against Postcode wars, Turf wars, knife and Gun-crime. The project is committed in motivating and encouraging young people to become more creative, confident, determined and positive individuals through confidence building activities, music, real life drama workshops and community chat shows. The project is also committed in building back stronger communities and reinstalling positive energy back into young people so that they may function more efficiently in the community and in society.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=51083837

Doreen Lawrence, anti racist campaigner, London, England (message)

Anti racism campaigner and mother of murdered teenager, Stephen Lawrence. In April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a group of young white men on a street in south-east London. No one was ever convicted of his killing.

Doreen Lawrence was born in Jamaica in 1952. She came to England aged nine and went to school in south-east London. In 1972, while working in a bank, she married Neville Lawrence. Since the murder of her son Stephen in 1993, she has campaigned for justice for Stephen and for other victims of racially motivated crime and for police reform. In 2003 she was awarded an OBE for services to community relations. As well as her work at the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, she sits on panels within the Home Office and the Police Service, and she is a member of both the board and the council of Liberty, the Human Rights organisation. Doreen Lawrence is the author of ‘And Still I Rise’, the story of a mother’s loss. It is also the story of how one ordinary black woman and her husband changed the face of British policing and the criminal justice system.

http://www.stephenlawrence.org.uk

Hilary McCollum, End Violence Against Women Coalition, London, England

Hilary McCollum is a feminist activist and writer who has been involved in campaigning against violence against women for more than 20 years. She is a member of the End Violence Against Women coalition and will speak about their work.

http://www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk

Jane Gregory, Rape Crisis, England and Wales, Bradford, England

Living at the Women’s Peace Camp at Greenham Common taught me the importance of loving the world around me and making connections. Currently I am actively involved in Bradford Immigration & Asylum Advice & Support Network’s Women’s Club, Bradford Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the protests at Faslane nuclear submarine base, the anti capitalist social movement to try and prevent further climate chaos, I am one of the Co-ordinators of Bradford Rape Crisis & Sexual Abuse Survivors Service and the Vice Chair of Rape Crisis (England & wales)

http://www.rapecrisis.org.uk

Dr Katherine Rake, Fawcett Society, London, England

Dr. Katherine Rake is Director of the Fawcett Society and one of the UK’s leading specialists in gender and social policy. Under her leadership, Fawcett runs passionate, informed campaigns for women’s rights. Katherine has advised the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit, HM Treasury and a range of other Government departments. She is a regular broadcaster and has contributed to a wide range of print media. Katherine was previously Lecturer in Social Policy at the LSE and secondee to the Women’s Unit, Cabinet Office where she edited a ground-breaking report on women’s lifetime incomes. In 2008, Katherine was awarded an OBE for services to equal opportunities, an Institute of Directors ‘Good Director’ Honour and the Social Policy Association’s Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution from a Non-academic.

http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk

Kay Smith, Million Woman Drummer, London, England

I live and work in London and I am currently a Disability Employment Adviser. I caught the drumming bug 3 years ago. It quickly became a passion and an increasingly important part of my spiritual journey.
Many of us have had experience or know of someone, who has experienced violence in their lives. It is important for me to be present at this gathering to support the ongoing struggle against violence against women. Together we are strong.

Kongosi Onia Mussanzi, Centre for the Resolution of Conflicts, Democratic Republic of Congo

Kongosi is a women’s rights activist and a founder of DR Congo Center for Peace & Reconciliation but had to flee to the UK in June 2001 when her life came under threat and she was evacuated to the UK. She is currently studying for an MA in Peace Studies at Bradford University. She is also involved in conflict resolution, trauma counseling and reconciliation, with NGOs, churches and political leaders, students and women traumatized through rape.

Margaret Moran, MP, Luton and Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic Violence, Luton, England

Margaret Moran was first elected as the MP for Luton South in May 1997. Her interests span a wide range of concerns from housing, to domestic violence, new technologies, social exclusion and football. Margaret was responsible for the ground breaking “Womenspeak” project using interactive ICT to link Parliamentarians and survivors of Domestic Violence. As a result, she has driven policy and legislative changes to provide greater fairness for Domestic Violence survivors in immigration cases, greater protection for Domestic Violence survivors in court and to ensure they get priority for rehousing.

http://www.margaretmoran.org.uk

Marai Larasi, the nia project, London, England

Marai Larasi is the Chief Executive of the nia project. She has worked in the violence against women field for over 14 years. She has delivered frontline refuge services, facilitated support groups, delivered training and managed direct services. For the past 9 years Marai has been responsible for the strategic development of the nia project. She has worked on ensuring that the project remains a strong, committed feminist organisation, while rising to meet (and predicting) emerging expectations around everything from service delivery and quality to management systems and new technologies.

Marai is involved in a range of partnerships, boards and committees that enable her to contribute to policy and best practice on a wider basis.

Marai is a committed feminist who believes in creating change through education, awareness-raising and continued and consistent challenging of oppression and inequality.

http://www.niaproject.info

Maryam Shafique, Lyrical Poet, Birmingham, England

17 year old Maryam Shafique is a lyrical artist who writes about her own childhood experiences and those of other young people in her community

Miriam Nobre, World March of Women, Brazil (video message)

Miriam is the World March of Women (WMW) International Secretariat Co-ordinator and International Committee member. The World March of Women’s actions and demands are based around four Action Areas, one of which is “Violence against women as a tool of control of women’s lives, bodies and sexuality”.

http://www.worldmarchofwomen.org

Nerindra Jhall, Police Officer, Survivor and Author, England

Nerindra has been a Police Officer for just over 16yrs. For best part of 21yrs of her life she was a victim of domestic violence, suffering, at times, extreme physical violence at the hands of her brutal father. On joining the Police she thought she would be safe but thee years into her Police career her parents tricked her into going to India. Not knowing of the events that were to unfold she went willingly expecting to return home in 2 weeks. She was kept in a remote village for 5 to 6 weeks, threatened with violence and told she would never return home to the UK, that she would be married off in India. She was eventually rescued by armed police and returned home. The emotional, physical and mental damage was too much to cope with which resulted in her taking an overdose.

Nerindra now talks at Conferences about her experience to raise awareness in this topic and set up a facebook group called ‘Sister of Hope’ to reach out to what she calls the silent victims. Her support group contains telephone numbers of police and support organisations for any individual who may be being forced into marriage, suffering domestic violence and or sexual abuse. Nerindra is currently writing a book about her experience.

Niki Stevens, Womens Institute, London, England

Niki is a strong supporter of the NFWI’s campaign for No More Violence Against Women.

Niki set up the East End WI in 2007 with the help of friends after women in their local community realised a need for a group that brought local women together. East End WI quickly forged links with the U-Turn Project, a local charity that works with street prostitutes in the Bethnal Green area. WI members have since worked with them raising awareness and funds.

The NFWI is a member of the End Violence Against Women coalition and is working to raise awareness of violence against women. WI members hope that by openly they can break the taboos that stop many women seeking help. The NFWI is especially committed to drawing attention to rural victims of violence, who may face additional barriers to seeking help and accessing services.

http://www.eewi.btik.com

Ranjit Kaur, Activist, London, England

Ranjit Kaur has spent most of her life working for equality and justice for women. Currently, she works as a consultant and trainer although she remains very active as a volunteer in the women’s voluntary sector. Ranjit is the former Director of Rights of Women, an award winning national voluntary organisation providing women with advice on their legal rights and remedies. Prior to this, she has worked as a trade union officer and a civil servant.

Ruth Bashall, Disabled woman, Disability Rights Activist

I have been a human rights activist and a lesbian feminist campaigner all my life. I am currently working on disability and other forms of hate crime, violence and abuse against disabled people, and in particular on violence against disabled women. I am an adviser to the Metropolitan Police and the Office for Disability Issues. I am part of a friendship and political network of out, proud disabled women. I want to see a world which values us, and where we as disabled women value ourselves.

Sabrina Qureshi, Co-ordinator, Million Women Rise, London, England

Sabrina is the founder and Co-ordinator of Million Women Rise. She was awarded the Emma Humphreys Memorial Award in 2008 and was recently named by the Independent newspaper as a member of a new generation of leading feminists. Sabrina is a passionate and effective advocate and organiser on issues of institutionalised and systematic oppression, including gendered violence. She has over the years worked as a counsellor, refuge worker, advocate and organizer and is currently a trustee on the Management Committee of Women and Girls Network.

http://www.wgn.org.uk

Sophie Dola, World March of Women, Nairobi, Kenya (video message)

Sophie Dola is a women’s rights activist who works in a women’s rights theatre group called the 5 Centuries Group based in Nairobi. The company performs theatre related to gender issues including violence to women and women taking up leadership positions. The company encourages the socio and economic empowerment of women through songs, puppetry, dance, drama and spoken word. Sophie is also the National Co-ordinator of the World March of Women, an international feminist action movement connecting grass-root groups and organisations working towards elimination of the causes at the root of poverty and violence against women. The World March of Women also struggles against all forms of inequality and discrimination directed at women.

http://www.worldmarchofwomen.org

Wilhelmina Trout, World March of Women, South Africa (video message)

Wilhelmina is a member of the World March of Women International Committee, one of two from Africa. Political activist working with grassroots organizations, particularly domestic workers and women in the informal sector, and working to build the presence of the WMW in Africa, especially the Anglophone region.

http://www.worldmarchofwomen.org

Women from Palestine, West Bank, Palestine, Britain Palestine Twinning Network

Ten women from all over the Palestinian West Bank bring their stories to enrich twinning links all over England. The Britain Palestine Twinning Network is organising an exciting speaking tour at the time of International Women’s Day in March 2009.

“We hope on our visit to build relations with women and societies in U.K ,and to exchange experience” writes Wasfia Othman, a social worker and chair of a women’s committee in Beit Leed, a village near Tulkarem. Her village has a new relation with people in Pendle, Lancashire, one of about thirty places in England now with friendship links with Palestine.

http://www.twinningwithpalestine.net/

For March details see http://iwd2009.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/million-women-rise-saturday-7-march-2009/

sunday 8th march 1.30pm

a herstory tour of the Royal Mile, Edinburgh

FREE

meet outside the camera obscura

International Women’s Day is usually marked on the 8th March each year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. This year Safer Leeds would like to raise awareness of a specific issue affecting many women in our communities.

Honour Based Violence is Domestic Violence

Honour based violence involves a range of abusive behaviour towards someone for perceived immoral acts which causes a family or community to feel shame and dishonour. What constitutes this dishonour depends on those involved – but it can be anything from wearing clothes or choosing a career which the family disapprove of, to marrying outside of the community. The abuse can range in severity and can be both physical and mental. In extreme circumstances, the person believed to have brought ‘dishonour’ upon the family is murdered, this is known as an ‘honour killing’.

Honour based violence cuts across all cultures and communities however, it is most likely to occur in cultures which are male dominated. The majority of the victims are women, although women e.g. sisters and mothers may also play a part in the violence. Honour based violence is not a religious act but often the guilty have tried to justify their action on religious grounds. The key factors are cultural and generational divisions; the victim has often refused to comply with a family or culture’s self-proclaimed code or rules.

Honour Based Violence Event
Banquet Hall, Leeds Civic Hall, Leeds, LS1 1UR.
10th March 2009 from 1.30pm to 4pm

1.00–1.30 : Tea and coffee
1.30–3.30 : Speakers
3.30–4.00 : The Way Forward – Questions & Answers Session

Nazir Afzal OBE Director, CPS – (CPS perspective on forced marriage cases as honour based violence)
Imkaan – (Provide awareness on raising issues on honour based violence faced by BME women and children)
Philip Balmforth – (West Yorkshire Police’s perspective on specific issues faced by BME women linking to honour based violence)
ACCM Sheffield – (Provide awareness on Female Genital Mutilation and the context in which it occurs)

Places are free but limited. For availability please contact Angela Singh
e: angela.singh@leeds.gov.uk
t: 0113 3952135
m: 07804507749 (for Deaf or hard of hearing people)
f: 0113 3950825

RECLAIM THE NIGHT ~ march to end violence against women!
Tues 17 March 2009 … Assemble @ 7pm (see route below) … Cardiff city centre

I’m writing to invite you to a safe, empowering event to draw attention to women’s right to walk the streets at night without the fear or reality of violence.

A survey by a young women’s magazine in 2005 found that 95% of women don’t feel safe on the streets at night, and 65% don’t even feel safe during the day. 73% worry about being raped and almost half say they sometimes don’t want to go out because they fear for their own safety. Women cannot claim equal citizenship while the threat of violence restricts our lives as it does.

We demand the right to use public space without fear.
We demand this right as a civil liberty; we demand this as a human right.

Reclaim the Night is about taking back the right to walk our streets whenever we want to, without the fear or reality of violence.

Why march?

The march has 3 main focuses:

1. Challenge people’s attitudes towards women who fall victim to sexual violence. A 2008 study by our members NUS Wales Women’s Campaign and Amnesty International Wales found that 38% of students in Wales think a woman is totally / partially responsible for being raped if she has acted ‘in a flirtatious manner’, 28% if she is wearing ‘sexy or revealing clothes’, 34% if she is drunk and 23% if she is ‘alone and walking in a dangerous or deserted area’.

2. Demand improved conviction rates for rapists. All four Welsh police areas are below even the appalling UK average (6.1% of reported rapes lead to convictions). In 2006, South Wales Police convicted 5.9% of reported rapes (down from 12.18% in 2004).

3. Continue our campaign to get the Welsh Assembly Government to develop an integrated strategy to end violence against women, complying with UN recommendations, addressing ALL forms of violence against women and recognizing such violence as both a cause and consequence of women’s inequality.

Gender

The front part of the march will be self-defined women only, and will be followed by a mixed march so that anyone, regardless of gender or gender identity, can show solidarity for the cause.

Route

We will assemble at 7pm at the start point indicated on the attached map (from town, walk along Castle Street, over the bridge towards Canton, and we will be meeting on a triangularish patch of grass between the bridge and the turn-off to Cathedral Road!). We will march up Castle Street, under the underpass by the Hilton to the civic centre, past the Crown Court, ending up at the Welsh Assembly Government building in Cathays Park at approx 8pm, where we will have speakers including:
* Paula Hardy (Chief Executive, Welsh Women’s Aid)
* Naomi Brightmore (Director, Wales Women’s National Coalition)
* Katie Dalton (Women’s Officer, NUS Wales)
+ more tbc.

For further information there is a Facebook event page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=54203726942#wall_posts.