NAWO’s Vice Chair Barbara Cleary and Coordinator Tahereh Matjeko were delighted to attend the Women’s Resource Centre’s event on Friday 8th September with the Greater London Authority on the Mayor’s Diversity and Inclusion...
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It’s fantastic to read long term advocate for women’s rights, Margaret Owen, speaking up for women’s voices in The Guardian recently. Read what she had to say on the sad loss of overseas women speakers to the UK below and at the...
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NAWO is very grateful to the University of Exeter and World Associations of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts for holding their Gender Symposium on 12th September 2017, focusing on how organisations can support young women in leadership. NAWO took this...
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#scrapthecap #scraptherapeclause CALL to ACTION Last week, Engender Scotland launched a petition with the UK Parliament petitions committee calling for a repeal of the ‘family cap’ measures in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016, including the...
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NAWO has written to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee to voice its concerns about the Social Security (Restrictions on Amounts for Children and Qualifying Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2017 (Statutory Instruments 2017 No. 376)...
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CSW61: An overview The UN Headquarters in New York played host to government representatives, NGOs, and UN agencies from 13-24 March 2017 for the 61st Commission on the Status of Women. Chair H.E. Mr. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota spoke for many...
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6 March 2017 Welcome to the Equality and Diversity Forum newsletter. Opinion: Just Fair – Equality matters to human rights. We need a socio-economic duty. Government and public bodies – news and information WEC Report and EDF...
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UN Women NC UK is working to light up London – starting with the lighting of the London Eye in HeForShe Magenta, in launching the first HeForShe Arts week on Wednesday for International Women’s Day! HeForShe is the UN Women...
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What bold actions are you taking to help drive gender parity? #BeBoldForChange This is the focus of 2017’s International Women’s Day! What will you stand up to change? Will you: Challenge bias and inequality? Campaign against...
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY! Earlier this year NAWO launched a pilot project- 8OUNDER8O. A project to collect the views of 80 women under 80 on various issues from Brexit to Violence against Women and girls! This International...
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The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, a.k.a. the “Istanbul Convention”, is based on the understanding that violence against women is a form of gender-based violence that is...
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