July News

• AVA conference 5 November - 'Whose movement is it anyway?' - book your place now!   30.07.10

  AVA Conference focusing on survivors' role in ending violence against women and girls.  More

• New report: Supporting families affected by substance use and domestic violence   30.07.10

  The Stella Project, University of Bedfordshire, Adfam (2010)  More

• UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women created - UN Women   27.07.10

  In an historic move, the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously on 2 July 2010 to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide.  More

• Report: Findings of the Forced Marriage IDVA Support Pilot (September 2009 – February 2010)   27.07.10

  Between 1 September 2009 and 28 February 2010, eleven voluntary support services took part in a forced marriage support pilot.  More

• We still have a few places left on our September courses Adolescent Domestic Violence and Recovering from the Impacts of Domestic Violence – Unresolved Anger   27.07.10

  Places on training stil available  More

• AVA welcomes Government announcement on no recourse and congratulates SBS on their perseverance!   19.07.10

  Theresa May told the audience at last Friday's annual Women’s Aid conference that the government will commit to funding the "no recourse to public funds" scheme  More

• The Sojourner Project - Extension to the Pilot   02.07.10

  Referrals can now be taken up to the 23 July 2010  More

• New report - Women Seeking Asylum 2 years on: impacts and actions   02.07.10

  This report has been written to bring together many of the Charter’s actions and impacts in one place to take stock of current progress.  More

• Report - Impact of sexual violence on disclosure during Home Office interviews   02.07.10

  This study conducted by Bogner, D, Herlihy, J & Brewin, C. (2007) published in the British Journal of Psychiatry aims to determine whether and how sexual violence affects asylumseekers’ disclosure ofpersonalinformation during Home Office interviews.  More