The aim of this new WRC project is to produce a practical on-line toolkit aimed at women and women’s organisations to help them use human rights and equality laws for campaigning and lobbying in the UK at local level. We hope this will be an invaluable tool to make positive change for women in access to and provision of services, control over resources, women-only spaces, violence against women, representation and decision-making, etc.
In order to make the toolkit relevant and grounded in women’s experience, we are calling for mini case-studies which illustrate the successes and challenges women have had in using the human rights and equality law to help them. We are looking for short “stories” that outline what happened, the context, what women were hoping to achieve, challenges they faced, how they used rights and equality laws to achieve the outcomes, and factors involved in achieving success (or otherwise!) All material will be non-attributable and names can be changed if required. Please let me know how we should credit you or your organisation for your support and contribution. Your organisation’s details will also appear in the resource and contacts list presented at the end of each section.
We are also looking for relevant images, photos, and links to other online resources that we can use or reference after each section.
The topics are as follows:
* The Human Rights Act;
* The Equality Act;
* Using the Law to challenge decisions to make change for women;
* Influencing Locally.
If you have any material of this kind I would be very grateful if you could email it to me as the consultant designing and developing this project.
The deadline is Friday 17 April 2015.
If you would like further information, or can suggest any other people we should contact for information, please email or call me on 02083785362 or mobile 07712 836862.
We hope this will be a free, practical, accessible and exciting new tool for your organisations and your members.
Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith
Anona Development Consultancy
Tel: 0208 378 5362
www.anonadevelopment.co.uk
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