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NewsApril 2008 Activities - Premises; Charitable Status; Europe; North West Equality Awards; Womens Movement:Trade Unions; Festivals March 2008 Activities - Million Women Rise; NUS Reclaim the Night Manchester; Meeting with White Ribbon Campaign China; North West Equality and Diversity Group; White Ribbon Conference: Nottingham Values Conference: Sky News Second Life Conference; Trustees Meeting February 2008 Activities - Meeting with Teresa May; Halifax Courier Article; Feminist Coalition against Prostitution: Hebden Royd Town Counci; Men’s Coalition Steering Group; Task Force Meeting January 2008 Activities - Kirkby Stephen School Fundraising; Merchandise Development; Facebook Quizzes 2007 annual report - download here November-December 2007 Activities - Premiership backs the White Ribbon Campaign; Scottish Borders Campaign gains 2,000 pledges; Wrexham March and Reclaim the Night 2007 October Activities - Youth Act British Library; Home Truths Derby; Haringey DV Forum; Workers Beer Company; Facebook and Second Life September Activities - Freshers Fair; Club Night; North West Regional DV RoadShow; White Ribbon Scotland; Photo Shoot for Cosmopolitan; Conference in India; White Ribbon Namibia August 2007 Activities - UNISON order 5,000 badges and commit to being a supporter; International Service Human Rights Award; Scotland White Ribbon Blog; Speaker requests June 2007 Activities - Liverpool Lord Mayors Parade; Strasbourg presentations; Scottish White Ribbon Campaign; New merchandise; academic research; community care conference; student placements. May 2007 Activities - Disco Inferno: No to Ignorance Week; Outdoor Events; May Day Community Soccer Festival, Leeds; Men’s Active Participation in Combating Domestic Violence; Northfield Community Safety Partnership; Thirsk Soroptimists. April 2007 Activities - Portugal; Greece; KPMG Varsity Match; Downloadable Flash Animations; Charitable Status; Placement Students. March 2007 Activities - Women's TUC; Workers' Beer Company; NW TUC; FEM 07; Rape Crisis Scotland; Congress of local authorities; ASDA T shirts; and more February 2007 Activities - Guardian coverage of WRC support for women students; Manchester City offers prizes; new display boxes ordered; 200 Manchester students sign up for campaign; White Ribbon stalls at Vagina Monologues; Changing Men’s Behaviour Seminar; Council of Europe Task Force against Violence against Women; January 2007 Activities - WRC invited by the National Association of Women’s Organisations; Hebden Bridge Trades Club benefit for WRC; Chris Green addresses Euro Committee on Equal Opps; volunteer activities; Hilary Benn MP gives his support. December 2006 Activities - campaigning by football and rugby clubs, police and the fire service; annual report; Milan video and letter; cheque from Bury Council; future plans; music campaign; new banners. November 2006 Activities - see just a fraction of the photos received following White Ribbon Day on 25th November; 140,000 ribbons, leaflets and posters distributed; hal fa million ribbons to be ordered; Scotland White Ribbon Campaign now up and running; the Prime Minister of Spain and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe showed their ribbons. October 2006 Activities - first student placement; Hebden Bridge Film Night “Take My Eyes”; Sefton Equalities Partnership; York St John Student Union; MMU Design Students; Orders Flooding in; Women's Resource Centre Backlash Event September 2006 Activities - meeting Cherie Blair at Downing Street reception to recognize work against Domestic Abuse; White Ribbon campaigns in Germany and Scotland; women are not sex objects demo at Labour Conference August 2006 Activities - work in Wales, ribbons received from Women's Empowerment Group, Pakistan and media coverage including Guardian feature July 2006 Activities - Film booked for Hebden Bridge, orders received and placed, and funding application completed. June 2006 Activities - WRC (UK) committee meeting, White Ribbon contributions to other campaigns, support from the Professional Footballers Association, more European connections, and the addition of more productions to our online shop. May Activities Attendance at National Network White Ribbons for European Heads of Football Associations. A letter accompanying it from the Parliamentary Assembly Rapporteur on Stop trafficking in Women before the World Cup demanded that they should not stand aside and simply treat the victims of trafficking as “collateral damage” and called on them to wear a white ribbon to demonstrate their refusal to have anything to do with human trafficking and forced prostitution. Republica Football Tournament
We’re also in the process of ordering 200,000 peel off ribbons, and 1,000 white ribbon magnets as well as re-stocking on another 50,000 ribbons. April 2006 Stands have also been set up recently at the NUS Conference, at the Home Office Developing a Co-ordinated Commnity response to Domestic Violence Conference , and at two Amnesty conferences aimed at involving men in Stopping violence against women.
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February Development Director Sheena Rennie started working with White Ribbon Campaign A very succesful event was held at Leeds University in co-operation with the Amnesty Group.100 male students completed a questionnaire, and left wearing white ribbons. A useful exchange of views with Reform Organisation of Norway. Clear Channel UK sponsor WRC to the tun of over £5000's worth of Advertising Space on their sites Sarah Badgerow of Maji Majuri from Kenya came to visit White Ribbon Campaign to discuss how we could work with their project. First meeting of the Council of Europe Task Force on Ending Violence to Women due to take palce in Strasbourg at the end of February. January We thought that January would be quiet, but there's so much planning going on- A few highlights from what has happened in January A new creative campaign aimed at young people has been put together by award winning students Darren Berresford and Rick Gayton from Manchester Metropolitan University which will be running at the Manchester Student Unions during March. Look out for the images on the website soon. An awareness raising workshop aimed at men hosted by Leeds University Amnesty Group to be held in early February. New banners need to be ordered to be based on the images of young people campagin Attendance at several meetings of the BRAVE Project, Bradford Presentation at the annual meeting of the Freedom Programme A useful meeting with Fathers Direct who work to improve the role of men in childcare White Ribbon material orders from a number of groups preparing Vagina Monologues performances Co-operation with two theatre groups preparing shows on Domestic Violence Booking stands at forthcoming TUC and NUS Conferences For more details about any of these please call the office Images from November's amazingly successful White Ribbon Campaign in Liverpool, and from the Until the Violence Stops Benefit at the CC Club in Picadilly Circus where the bar staff, the door staff, and almost all the participants were wearing white ribbons.
A week's worth of activities23/11/05 London.Helping give out ribbons in the House of Lords. We distributed about 500 to Peers, MP's and various Government Departments. Very supportive , but some education is required for some. One Peer was challenged when he said "Violence against Women- There's none of that in North Yorkshire !" 24/11/05 Leeds. A stall at a commemoration of homelessness at the Swarthmore Education Centre in Leeds. The Deputy Lord Mayor of Leeds and some of the users of the centre were among those who bought ribbons. 25/11/05 Liverpool. Liverpool Womens Hospital, Liverpool Airport, Shopping Centres and Fire Stations were among places that some of the 15,000 ribbons were distributed. We attracted attention by travelling around in a stretched Humvee limo. The Lord MAyor of Liverpool and Rafael Benitez the Liverpool FC Football coach were seen wearing their ribbons. Rafael Benitez wore his oon Saturday on Match of the Day- very welcome publicity. In the evening there was a candelight vigil in the main pedestrianised shopping area. 26/11/'05 Bradford. An all day stall at Bradford Peace Festival. 27/11/05 London. White Ribbon Campaign sponsored the Tender Until the Violence Stops Benefit aimed at men at the CC Club, playing giant scalextric, bar football and pool. All the bar staff and bouncers were wearing their ribbons, adn a very high proportion of those attending the event. Comedian Kevin Day was very supportive and may help us make some other celebrity links 29/11/05 Attended the launch of the End Violence against Women Coalition Campaign. First News of this year's White Ribbon activities Harrow's White Ribbon 5 a-side football match success Omer AftabOmer Aftab a Public Relations Consultant in Pakistan is seeking to recommence a White Ribbon Campaign in Pakistan in the near future. We are negotiating with them to have our next big ribbon orders manufactured byt the Womens' Empowerment Group of Pakistan October 2005500 metres of ribbon for DiY ribbon manufacture plus another 2,500 preprinted just delivered ready for the autumn campaign September 2005 New members of Advisory groupThree prominent people have agreed to act as Advisors to WRC (UK). Tamsin Larby is Executive Director of Until the Violence Stops (www.vdayuk.org) Ben Atherton-Zeman, produces the amazing"Voices of Men," www.voicesofmen.org, and is a national spokesperson for National Organisation of Men Against Sexism
September 2005 Tony Blair to wear white ribbon ? At the launch of the Corporate Alliance Against Domestic Violence at the Home Office,Chris Green provided Cherie Booth with a white ribbon enamel badge for Tony Blair to wear.( Now let's make sure he wears it !) 2005 Presentation at NOMAS conferenceWRC UK ran a workshop at the National Organisation of Men against Sexism Conference "Echoes of Violence" in Atlanta. There is a lot of excellent work going on by organisations such as Men Stopping Violence.www.menstoppingviolence.org Lots of enquries and activityOver the summer there have been enquiries and requests for campaigning materials from local authorities, domestic violence units, student unions, and other start up White Ribbon campaign groups. Meeting with Euro WRC April 2005WRC UK had a meeting with Euro WRC in Brussels while distributing 800 CDs of the Daphne Toolkit Resources for combatting violence against children, young people and women at an extraordinary V Day event featuring lots of celebrity women from around Europe including singer Annie Lennox and Dame Anita Roddick of the BodyShop. Eve Ensler spoke movingly about the need to end violence against women. New Resources Available February 2005A New CD and DVD " Resources for combatting violence against Children, Young People and Women, Lessons and Ideas from 303 projects funded by the Daphne programme" is now available from City and Shelter project in Brussels Vagina Monologues EventWRC had a stand at a Vagina Monologues event in Hebden Bridge, which was raining money for local women's Aid and supporting work against violence towards women in Iraq. People at the event were very supportive, and good contacts were made. Both of the Vagina Monologues readings were sold out |
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