Women Fighting Back: International and Legal Perspectives - Workshop Signup

Select Your Workshop Session

Attendees of the International Women's Conference 28-29 November 2015 will need to select their choices for the workshop sessions.  Nine or 10 workshops will run in each of the three sessions.  Attendees must make their selections on the form below by Friday 27 November 2015 at 17:00.  Please also provide us with any languages required for interpretation, and any other information we will need to be aware of on the day.

UPDATE: Registration has now closed and anyone not having signed up will need to sign up on Saturday or Sunday morning.

Saturday 28 November 2015 12:00-13:00

1. Challenging Sexism in Culture
   Professor Mary Evans
   Jane Fae
   Nina Power
   (Facilitator Kate Hodgson)

2. Putting the Red in the Red Light: the Debate on the Decriminalisation of Prostitution
   Speaker from the English Collective of Prostitutes
   Julian Norman
   Ehose Aghatise
   (Facilitator Emily Elliott)

3. Housing and Land Rights
   Ayesha Taylor (Focus E15)
   Saskia Hara (Focus E15)
   Wafa Kafarna (Norwegian Refugee Council / Palestine)
   (Facilitator Liz Davies)

4. Violence against Women: ActionAid’s “Fearless” Campaign
   Caroline Jones (ActionAid)
   Anne Quesney (ActionAid)
   (Facilitator Adiam Weldensae)

5. Women and Environmental Justice
   Melanie Strickland
   (Facilitator Hannah Lynes)

6. Taking Justice into Our Own Hands
   Izzy Koksal (HASL)
   Lizzie O'Shea
   (Facilitator Natalie Csengeri)

7. Migrants and Borders: Changing the Dialogue
   Natasha Tsangarides
   Frances Webber
   (Facilitator Wendy Pettifer)

8. Women Political Prisoners
   Shiva Mabobi
   Radha D'Souza
   (Facilitator Amy Murtagh)

9. Women in Peace and Conflict
   Houzan Mahmoud
   (Facilitator Debra Stanislawski)

10. The Istanbul Convention
    Thomas Schmidt (ELDH)
    Rachel Nye (ICChange)
    Rebecca Bunce (ICChange)
    

Sunday 29 November 2015 11:45-12:45

1. Regulation of the Porn Industry
   Jane Fae
   (Facilitator Emily Elliott)

2. Changing the Dialogue: Migrants and Borders
   Natasha Tsangarides
   Frances Webber
   (Facilitator Amy Murtagh)

3. Reaching Hidden Communities
   Jeanne Mirer (IADL)
   Jamila Duncan-Bosu (Anti-Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit)
   

4. Experiences of Migrant Women in the UK
   Emma Lough (AIRE Centre)
   Charlotte Threipland (Hackney Community Law Centre)
   (Facilitator Wendy Pettifer)

5. Abortion Rights
   Anna Gall
   Rebecca Gomperts / Sinead Kennedy (TBC) (Women on Waves)
   (Facilitator Virginia Santini)

6. Taking Justice into Our Own Hands
   Sarah Reader (Campaign Against the Arms Trade)
   (Facilitator Kate Hodgson)

7. Women in Peace and Conflict
   Houzan Mahmoud
   (Facilitator Martha Baker)

8. The Sustainable Development Goals
   Annette Lawson
   (Facilitator Zarin Hainsworth)

9. Trans*forming Society
   Roz Kaveney
   Natacha Kennedy
   (Facilitator Lyndsey Sambrooks-Wright)

10. Radical Equality
    Paula Peters (DPAC)
    Natasha Bannan
    (Facilitator Debra Stanislawski)

11. *Additional Session*: General Questions to Speakers

Sunday 29 November 2015 14:00-15:00

1. Challenging Sexism in Culture
   Jane Fae
   (Facilitator Natalie Csengeri)

2. Using International Instruments to Advance Women’s Rights
   Zarin Hainsworth
   Meera Khanna
   

3. Housing and Land Rights
   Hannah Caller (Focus E15)
   Jasmin Stone (Focus E15)
   Wafa Kafarna (Norwegian Refugee Council / Palestine)
   (Facilitator Debra Stanislawski)

4. Experiences of Migrant Women in the UK
   Emma Lough (AIRE Centre)
   Charlotte Threipland (Hackney Community Law Centre)
   (Facilitator Hannah Lynes)

5. Abortion Rights
   Anna Gall
   Rebecca Gomperts / Sinead Kennedy (TBC) (Women on Waves)
   (Facilitator Amy Murtagh)

6. Reaching Hidden Communities
   Jeanne Mirer Jeanne Mirer (IADL)
   Jamila Duncan-Bosu (Anti-Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit)
   (Facilitator Judith Seifert)

7. Radical Equality
   Pauala Peters (DPAC)
   Natasha Bannan
   (Facilitator Adiam Weldensae)

8. Trans*forming Society
   Roz Kaveney
   Chyrssy Hunter
   Natacha Kennedy
   (Facilitator Lyndsey Sambrooks-Wright)

9. Women in the Workplace
   Beth Shiner
   Marjorie Cohn
   (Facilitator Wendy Pettifer)