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Fawcett publishes new collection of essays on race and gender
The UK's leading women's rights campaign group has launched a ground-breaking collection of essays on the needs of ethnic minority women called 'Seeing Double: race and gender in ethnic minority women's lives'. Edited by zohra moosa, Senior Policy Officer Race & Gender at Fawcett, the collection includes an exclusive interview with Dawn Butler MP on her experiences as one of only two black women MPs in Parliament. The collection also includes contributions from Hannana Siddiqui, Joint Coordinator of Southall Black Sisters, Linda Bellos, founder of Black History Month in the UK and Professor Heidi Safia Mirza, Director of the Centre for Rights, Equalities and Social Justice at the Institute of Education. Baroness Amos, former Leader of the House of Lords and the first black woman in Cabinet, provides the foreword.
zohra moosa said:
"Dawn's extraordinary experiences in Parliament are just one example of the double disadvantage that ethnic minority women face. Stereotypes based on race coupled with outdated gender norms are combining to produce new forms of constraint and discrimination for black women in society. From the way violence against ethnic minority women is discussed to the assumptions that are made about their career ambitions, it is clear that policy makers do not understand how race and gender intersect in ethnic minority women's lives."
Copies of the publication are available online (www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=628) and in hard copy.
The Colour of Health - Issue 6
olour of Health aims to provide health information and lifestyle tips primarily for women from a diverse range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs and traditions living in the UK. The new website has been launched and can be reached at www.thecolourofhealth.com
Issue 6 includes articles on: Surviving Depression, TB Alert, Living With Galucoma, How to be Assertive, Work Racism and Stress and much much more.
Download your copy here 
If your organisations would like to contact Cynthia Brooks about getting something into the next issue, the deadline for the September 08 issue is 14th August. Cynthia can be emailed at: editor@thecolourofhealth.com
Ethnic Minority Women into Public Life
Thank you to everyone who attended this event. We hope you enjoyed the day.
The presentations by Marina Larios (Inova Consultancy) and Merryn Wells (Equality and Human Rights Commission) are posted here along with a full conference report.
Marina Larios - Powerpoint Presentation
Marina Larios - Presentation
Merryn Wells - Powerpoint presentation
Merryn Wells - Presentation
New Migrant Workers' Support Network for South Yorkshire
Afer months of development and discussion the new Migrants' Support Network has been set up with Take Part South Yorkshire playing a key role. There has been much discussion about migration, and much of it ill informed and prejudicial, as well as the justifiable outrage at some of the appaling employment practices being inflicted on fellow European citizens in this country. The network will fight to improve the position of our indigenous workers alongside those from other countries.
www.alacsy.org.uk
Operation Black Vote
Operation Black Vote www.obv.org.uk is the home of black politics and has all the up to date campaigns, news and information.
(1) Find out what's happening in your BME community in:
(2) Add details of your own organisation, activity or business that supports the growth and development of the BME community. To do this click here to add a web page for free >>
(3) Use the search feature below to find community web pages of support to BME and other areas of development for women in South Yorkshire .
A to Z Index for BME (Black & Ethnic Minority) community pages
Search tip: the ability to add a region to a community web page is a new feature and so many pages may not be associated with a region at all. For example not all organisations in Sheffield will have chosen to add Sheffield as a search category so if you search within the region 'Sheffield' you wont see them. Therefore, if you can't find what you're looking for within a specific region try searching on 'all regions'.
