AGM

Saturday 21st January 2012, 2pm-4pm
St George’s West, 58 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, EH2 4RT

Our Executive Director, Niki Kandirikirira will make a presentation on the work that has been undertaken with Umoja around the need to gender the asylum process and give an overview of Engender’s plans for the coming year.

RSVP by 16th January to:  info@engender.org.uk or call the Engender office on 0131 558 9596

A light buffet will be provided

Our Annual Report is now available - a round up of our work over the past year and a taste of what we'll be doing during the coming year... Annual Report 2010-11

The Scottish Women’s Budget Group have published a response to the Scottish Governments draft budget 2012-13 and spending review 2011.  The SWGB have welcomed the  Government’s prioritisation of preventative spending in areas such as combating gender-based segregation in education, skills and employment opportunities.  However, it is concerned that the capital investment programme is overly focussed on big projects which will not provide an even spread of job creation between women and men.

Read the SWBG's full response  or read a summary of the response here

The Women's Resource Centre have produced a comprehensive briefing  on the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for  women's organisations.  

Download the briefing for women's organisations

Refugee women in Scotland face many barriers in their efforts to join the workforce.  The Refugee Women's Strategy Group have produced a report which highlights the barriers women encounter in their new publication 'The Struggle to Contribute' which you can read here.  

The topic:  Women's magazines, focussing on the attitudes of women with regard to the content of women's monthly magazines such as Cosmopolitan.  
Foucs groups made up of women who define themselves as feminist and those who do not

Please contact Emma Gillon at:      mailto:ejg00006@students.stir.ac.uk if you would like to take part.