Events Around the World

In this practical session you will learn how to identify gaps in your fundraising portfolio, discuss and share your experiences with fellow fundraisers, and find out more about the innovation framework and how to use it.

This is a brilliant opportunity to learn more about innovative fundraising, share your ideas and discuss the challenges of fundraising. The training will be facilitated by Beth Crackles, Business Development Manager at Friends of the Earth and fellow YPHR member.

More about the facilitator...

Beth joined Friends of the Earth last April. Her role as Business Development  Manager is to scope out and progress new income generating opportunities, from  developing an on the night fundraiser for high net worth individuals to looking at how the charity works with businesses.  Prior to Friends of the Earth Beth was Fundraising Strategy Planner at RNIB. In this role she supported business planning across the fundraising group, worked on cross-organisational external campaigns and helped develop the Innovation Programme.What Beth loves about fundraising is the variety of her role and how rewarding it is. She believes charities have a vital role in supporting and giving voice to groups and individuals who may otherwise be under or mis-represented.

Woven of organic wool colored with organic dyes, kilims are flatwoven. The symbols and motifs that Seden, Fatma and their weavers group use are from the Van region, as well as replicas of antique kilims from other regions of Turkey. In the conservative Kurdish community of Van, eastern Turkey, traditionally, weavers learn from their mothers and female relatives – girls are not allowed to go to school. http://handeyemagazine.com/content/tribal-rugs

Seden and Fatma represent a new generation within their community, having learned to weave in a workshop founded by social worker and photographer, Enver Ozkahraman. Trained in the mornings as weavers, the group learns to read and write in the afternoons. The income generation component of the workshop has helped gain the support and trust of parents for the literacy training.

Anatolian Artisans provides sustainable economic benefits for low income artisans of Turkey by helping improve quality and design, and through marketing as well as training in micro-business management.

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Webinar sessions cost £5 per participant (plus registration fee). Grassroot Diplomat members can attend for free. To join, please visit www.grassrootdiplomat.org/join.

Every day women are starting new businesses. Whether small, medium-sized or large scale, motivated by pure survival or for self-fulfillment, female entrepreneurs are realizing ideas, generating income and creating employment opportunities for themselves and others. In fact, female entrepreneurs in developing countries are currently hailed as the new rising stars of the economies and different stakeholders have commended them as an important source of economic growth and development. Despite the growing number of female-led business and a significant increase of initiatives, policies and resources designed to create enabling environments for women entrepreneurs, women still own and manage fewer businesses than men.

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Within this, the two key areas of focus are primary prevention (stopping violence before it starts) and multisectoral services and responses to victims/survivors.

Through these discussions, CSOs and other experts from the field of gender-based violence can answer questions, and share experiences and best practices.

Why Join?

CSW is an opportunity for Member States to discuss areas of concern for women and girls, and agree on approaches to address these issues.  UN Women needs input from CSOs and practitioners on the ground to ensure that the discussions will be informed by high quality materials and reports, which:

-Highlight the most effective responses, with strong evidence;

- Identify the gaps and challenges in achieving the most effective responses;

- Demonstrate the need to prevent violence before it starts.

The discussion outcomes will be used to inform the findings and recommendations in the Secretary-General’s two reports, provided to CSW members to guide them in their discussions.

They will also be included in a report for the general public on the official CSW 57 website; and will feed into an Expert Group Meeting on prevention (Bangkok, 17-20 September 2012) which will also present its outcomes to CSW.

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Context

Sex work is heavily penalised by governments across the world. States stigmatise sex workers as “moral scapegoats” and use mass arrests and brothel raids to exert control over non-normative sexuality. Penalising sex work, however, can violate people’s human rights related to health, bodily integrity, equality and nondiscrimination, autonomy, labour protections, and redress and restitution.

Overview

"Respected, Not Policed" will stimulate dialogue regarding the wide range of punitive laws and policies that punish sex workers for engaging in transactional sex. Participants will discuss the human rights implications of criminalisation by the State, including violence against sex workers, high rates of HIV transmission, stigma and discrimination. Participants will also discuss local strategies of resistance and meaningful engagement between sex workers and law enforcement. The discussion will further introduce sex workers and their allies to research done by CREA on violence against lesbian, disabled, and sex working women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, and a new project being launched by Amnesty International, in collaboration with partners across the globe, to devise strategic human rights advocacy strategies to end the illegitimate use of punitive laws and policies to police aspects of sexuality and reproduction.

Contributors

• Jaime Todd-Gher, Human Rights Advisor/Advocate, Amnesty International
• Debolina Dutta, Program Coordinator, Advocacy and Research, CREA
• Poornima, DMSC representative

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Source: CREA

About CREA

Founded in 2000, CREA is a feminist human rights organisation based in New Delhi, India. CREA builds feminist leadership, advances women's human rights, and expands sexual and reproductive freedoms.

E-mail: crea@creaworld.org | Website: www.creaworld.org