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Useful information for those working to end violence against women and girls.

• Survey: Art, Inclusion and Mental Health

  The University of Central Lancashire

• Free e-learning resource on sexual and reproductive health module

  Available on the Social Care Institute for Excellence website

• Campaign: End Detention of victims of trafficking campaign

  Eaves petition - Stop detaining trafficked people - Victims of trafficking are victims of crime, not criminals

• Report: "I feel like as a woman I'm not welcome" - a gender analysis of UK asylum law, policy and practice

  Asylum Aid (2012)

• Guidance: Preventing and reducing domestic violence

  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2012)

• Measuring the impact of cuts in public expenditure on the provision of services to prevent violence against women and girls

  Report by Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair in Gender Research, and Jude Towers at Lancaster University

• Call for artists!

  For AVA exhibition this spring

• Press release: Can’t Answer? Can’t Consent – Sex Without Consent is RAPE

  Womensgrid article on a campaign to raise awareness that sex without consent is always rape

• Website: Are You Ok?

  Victim Support service for young people who've been a victim or witness of crime

• Nominations: Migrant & Refugee Woman of the Year Award

  Deadline: 6 February

• Factsheet: Asylum support for women who are victims of domestic violence

  Asylum Support Appeals Project (2011)

• Campaign: Media Licensing and Charities

  CharityComms campaign to remove the burden of the media licensing regime from charities by exempting them from copyright licensing fees

• Publication: Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2010/11

  Home Office (2012)

• Summary Report: Survivors, Protectors, Providers - Refugee Women Speak Out

  UNHCR (2011)

• Funding: Women’s Fund Program

  Global Fund for Women grants. Closing date: 1 July 2012

• Film: Survivors of Human Trafficking

  United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner

• Petition: Waive the Compensation Time-Limit for PTSD Sufferers

  PTSD Supporters UK

• Press release: Spartacus Report reveals overwhelming opposition to disability benefit reform

  The report reveals that the government completely ignored disabled people in its rush to introduce cuts to disability benefits by replacing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with a new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and reducing the overall funding for DLA/PIP by 20%

• Report: Unintended Consequences - the cost of the Government’s Legal Aid Reforms

  Kings College London (2011)

• Petition: Require a Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Every Town With a Population over 120,000

  HM Government e-petitions, SARCS

• Report: Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) 2010/11 - Partner Abuse

  Scottish Government (2011)

• Report: Helpline highlights - How the NSPCC Helpline protects babies

  NSPCC (2011)

• Newsletter: Focus on Women, issue 15

  This Rights of Women’s Policy Newsletter edition provides a round up of policy issues affecting women’s access to their legal rights, and sets out current and upcoming debates

• Report: Hear and Now: Women in the criminal justice system making changes in their lives

  Women in Prison (2011)

• Virtual Consultation: Substance use participants and social workers needed

  Dr Sarah Galvani, University of Bedfordshire, British Association of Social Workers (BASW) Special Interest Group in Alcohol and other Drugs

• New book: The Guys Guide to Feminism

  Michael Kaufman and Michael Kimmel (2011)

• Press release: Ending female genital mutilation in the UK

  openDemocracy

• Report: Hidden value - Demonstrating the extraordinary impact of women’s voluntary and community organisations

  Women's Resource Centre (2011)

• Petition: Men "Just Say NO" to prostitution

  An invite to men to join us at ZEROMACHO in publicly declaring that prostitution is not for us

• Website: A to Z of Homelessness

  Younger homeless people from the Connection's digital group TouchBase have developed an inspiring A-Z series to warn other people about the harsh realities of being homeless

• Publication: NHS Outcomes Framework 2012-13

  Department of Health (2011)

• Resource: AQP Map

  Interactive Map of AQP Services