Keep smiling through: Black women in wartime Britain 1939 to 1945
Tuesday March 4 from 6.30pm to 8pm
Peckham Library, 122 Peckham Hill Street, SE15 5JR
Free
Southwark historian Stephen Bourne will give an illustrated talk highlighting the wartime experiences of black African Caribbean women in Britain. Among those featured will be writer and broadcaster Una Marson, and servicewomen [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘2008 03 04’
4 March 2008
IWD events in Southwark
1 March 2008
Celebrating International Women’s Day – Yorkshire and Humber TUC
Tuesday 4th March 2008
Y&H TUC offices, 33 Park Place, Leeds LS1 2RY
This event is free of charge
An invitation to female trade unionists in the Yorkshire and Humber area to join us at the Regional TUC Offices at 6pm for drinks and refreshments, and to view a film from the TUC’s Equal Pay Archive’s Recording Women’s [...]
1 March 2008
Women’s Rights and the Global Economy
4th March 2008 at 6:30pm
Lewis Media Centre, Millbank Tower, SW1P 4RS
Chair: Sarah Montague, Radio 4 Today Programme Presenter.
Speakers:
* Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, pioneering environmental activist and Founder Green Belt Movement; and
* Gita Sen, Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore and Adjunct Professor of Population and International Health, [...]
26 February 2008
Thinkingwomen Manchester event – Ethical Shopping: Who Foots the Bill?
Here are full details on the next Thinkingwomen event. Please forward round your networks and make this event a busy one, particularly as Rozalina has travelled from Bulgaria to share her experiences as a homeworker with us.
Ethical Shopping: Who Foots the Bill?
* Kate Byron, Women Working Worldwide and Ruth Bergan, Homeworkers Worldwide
* [...]
21 February 2008
International Women’s Day Conference: Pressures, Risks & Consequences of ‘Honour’
A conference to raise awareness of ‘honour’ related abuse within families has been organised to take place at Cardiff City Hall.
Cardiff Council, in partnership with the Henna Foundation, have arranged the free one-day conference entitled Pressures, Risks & Consequences of ‘Honour’ Related Abuse within Families: The Shackles of ‘Honour’ Codified Behaviour, which is the [...]
