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Women of colour

Mothers & grandmothers

Rural Women

Lesbian & bisexual women

Housewives

Women with disabilities and women dealing with ill-health

Older women

Girls and younger women

Waged women

Domestic workers

Immigrant women

Sex workers

Survivors of rape and domestic violence

Religious activists

Legal Action for Women

No School Apartheid

Men count women

Other websites of interest:
Global Women's Strike
Refusing to Kill
Women Against Rape


Archives:
Letter to Minister of Justice, Bolivia,
protesting murder of water protester Victor Hugo Daze

CLR James as a Political Leader - A Personal View: a Black History Month event

ALL WOMEN COUNT
For a world that values all women’s work, every life, and the planet.

Women do 2/3 of the world's work for 5% of the income.  But our work is unvalued and devalued, and we are unwaged and low-waged.  We give birth to, raise and care for all the people of the world, ensuring the survival of every community in every country.  Wealth and profit come from our work and the work of the people we produce.  Yet our values of survival and welfare are dismissed, and the brutal values of the global market are imposed on us as inevitable.  But together we can stop the world and change it.

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URGENT appeal for destitute women seeking asylum


The Safety First Coalition invites you to hear first hand about
New Zealand’s decriminalisation of prostitution,
Sweden’s criminalisation of clients,
and their effects on women’s health and safety.
16 January 2008, House of Commons

CRIMINAL JUSTICE & IMMIGRATION BILL 2008 – Aspects relating to prostitution

Philadelphia, USA: Come to a Community Dialogue & Speak Out

Mothers ROC!   Monday November 12

Reclaiming Our Children from DHS
Across the US, families are losing custody of children – that is, children are losing their families – at an alarming rate – Philly’s rate among the highest.



Article on Mumia Abu-Jamal, journalist who has been on death row for over 25 years :

'I spend my days preparing for life, not for death'

(Global Women's Strike website)

Journalists: Sign-on in support of death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal


SAFETY FIRST
A coalition to decriminalise sex work and prioritise all women´s and children´s safety. Co-ordinated by the English Collective of Prostitutes

Sign the
petition to decriminalise sex work & prioritise safety

Clause 72 of the Criminal Justice Bill: Safety First briefing to MPs + Press Release

Press release from the Safety First Coalition: 

Policies which contributed to the tragic murders of five young women in Ipswich are being reintroduced
ECP quoted in the Guardian

Letter to the Guardian

 

Ziteng, Hong Kong China 28 June 2007
One-person-one-letter campaign against police extensive raids on one-apartment women
請廣傳:一人一信反對警察洗太平地

Launch and re-publication of
The Arusha Declaration: Rediscovering Nyerere's Tanzania
by Crossroads Books
with keynote speaker Madaraka Nyerere,
son of
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's first President
Sat 16 June, 2-5pm. Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck St, Camden NW1

A Night out of the Asylum

Tricycle Theatre, 5-9pm Sunday 24 June
269 Kilburn High Road
Free to asylum seekers, £5 benefits/low waged, £10 waged - more if you can!
Tickets: Tricycle Box Office 020 7328 1000 

An evening of performances to close Refugee Week 2007
highlighting women’s and children’s experiences. With local schools, asylum seekers & featuring
Kay Adshead’s award winning The Bogus Woman starring Sarah Niles, directed by Kully Thiarai.

For more information contact 020 7482 2496
Email centre@crossroadswomen.net

Please sponsor Maki to help her finish her Marathon!
She is raising money to benefit Crossroads Women's Centre

 

Conference:


RAPE, RACE & PROSTITUTION

Campaigning for justice in the 21st century
More Info

 

Photos from End Child Poverty demonstration,
London, 20 Nov 2006

Single Mother's Self-Defence re the Child Support Agency
Letter in the Guardian 14 Feb 06

 

The 3rd World Congress Against the Death Penalty Paris Feb 07

 

Report of a 19 Oct London meeting addressed by Robert R Bryan, lead attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal 
 Hosted by Ian Macdonald QC, Garden Court Chambers
Organised by Legal Action for Women


150
Leading UK Lawyers Petition US Appeal Court Re Racism in Case of Death Row Journalist

Lawyers' letter
in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish
LAW's press release

Urgent help needed for our work with asylum seekers: 
Letter from Legal Action for Women

Launch of Misjudging Rape
A Dossier of how adjudicators flout international law and their own guidelines when they consider the asylum claims of women and girls seeking safety from rape
Tuesday 5 Dec 2006

  REFUGEE WEEK, launch of Three tools for rape survivors, legal representatives & supporters
 

Donations urgently needed for Legal Action for Women’s Emergency Fund to help cover food, travel (including to legal and health appointments) and other essential items for the many women seeking asylum.  
Where to send donations

Rape victims denied refuge in Britain
Letter in the Independent 24 May 06

Theatre Workshop
Buried Pasts - We are all asylum seekers
with internationally acclaimed playwright Kay Adshead

Put yourselves in our shoes:
Women asylum seekers speak to London’s school children

Six London schools invited women from the All African Women’s Group to speak during National Refugee Week

No School Apartheid: anti-sexist, anti-racist asylum seekers’ project for schools

Press release about the murders of women in Ipswich

Australian Strippers Victory on
Pay and Conditions

Exclusion zone issued on Birmingham rapist

Trafficking Victim Criminalised and Imprisoned  
Social Justice Network newsletter, Summer 2005

Mexico: Statement from the sex workers of Apizaco (Tlaxcala)

Plans threaten vulnerable sex workers 19 January 2006


Open letter to: Scottish Women’s Rural Institutes 
from the Global Women's Strike 6 Sept 06
About the term "Housewife"

The Suffering Palestinian Women 
Undergo Every Day
from a speech by Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Why ASBOs have turned Anti-Social  
letter published in the Guardian from Legal Action for Women

Parliamentary briefing Defending the Right to Protest in Parliament Square
from Legal Action for Women

Letter in the Guardian from women with disabilities 
regarding Blunkett's resignation
-
"once at the top, rather than represent us, he dished out discrimination"
 

Spanish/Español

MÉXICO: Las trabajadoras sexuales de Apizaco (Tlaxcala)

"La violencia localizada"
Nurit Peled es israelí y su hija, de 14 años, murió en 1997 en un atentado cometido por un kamikaze palestino. Fiel a sus principios y en un ejemplo de coherencia política, ella reclama el derecho a la existencia de los dos pueblos. 

Castellano: Algunas, preguntas - y respuestas - sobre la INMIGRACIÓN (pdf)

Catalan: Algunes, preguntes - i respostes - sobre La IMMIGRACIÓ (pdf)

SUBSIDIOS Y PRESTACIONES
LAS MUJERES Y NUESTRAS FAMILIAS RECLAMAMOS NUESTROS DERECHOS

Crossroads Books, pamphlets, videos
& T-shirts for sale

New:
The Arusha Declaration:
Rediscovering
Nyerere's Tanzania

Misjudging Rape:
 Breaching Gender Guidelines and International Law in Asylum Appeals

Creating a Caring Economy: 
Nora Castaneda and the Women's Development Bank of Venezuela
Creando una economia solidaria

 

New pamphlet:
A “Bleak House” 
for Our Times

An investigation into Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre  

For Asylum Seekers and their Supporters:
A Self-Help Guide against detention & deportation



VIDEOS/DVDs:
Talking of Power
Hablemos del Poder
Sex, race and class in revolutionary Venezuela

REFUSING TO KILL
Refuseniks from around the world speak out
against murder, rape & other torture

The Bolivarian Revolution: 
ENTER THE OIL WORKERS!

Venezuela - a 21st century revolution

Book: The Milk of Human Kindness
Defending breastfeeding from the global market and the AIDS industry


Book: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands
Recently Book of the Week on Radio 4!

Mary Seacole voted greatest Black Briton

 Book: 
Some Mother's Daughter
The hidden movement of prostitute women against violence

T-shirt: 
Invest in Caring not Killing

Pamphlet:
Sex, Race & Class