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Celebrate IWD with WEN Wales

Wednesday February 25th, 2015

Are you looking for an event to attend to celebrate IWD? WEN Wales has worked in partnership with organisations and individuals across Wales to bring you an exciting programme of activity… Cardiff Our South Wales event will take place on 8 March at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. Featuring WMAD’s Welsh Women’s Summit, workshops, activities, […]

Open letter to Philip Hammond MP, Foreign Secretary

Friday February 20th, 2015

Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, WEN Wales has written to Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to request that the UK Government ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention). Click here to download your copy of the letter […]

The Gender Agenda

Friday January 30th, 2015

For the 2014 WEN Wales Annual Lecture, we invited Beatrix Campbell, Pragna Patel and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett to share their experiences and thoughts on Fourth Wave feminism and the current status of women in the UK. WEN Wales are to be congratulated for putting together such an inspiring panel for their annual lecture on 27 […]

50:50 by 2020

Thursday January 29th, 2015

So, we want to achieve gender parity in local and national elections, and public life more widely, by 2020. It’s 6 years away, should be easy, yes? Hmm, maybe not. In 1997 the Westminster General election saw more women elected than in all the previous parliaments combined. The ratio has got worse since. In Wales […]