8th March 2025.
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.
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🥰✨ Incredible Feedback! ✨
We’re beyond proud to share that in our latest feedback from survivors, 100% answered "always" when asked if their worker:
👐 Treated them with respect
👂 Listened to them
💜 Helped them understand their trauma symptoms
🙌 Gave them choices
🥰 Made them feel safe and comfortable
This is the heart of our work. To every survivor who shared their reflections on our service - thank you. Your voice matters. 💜 And to our dedicated team - this is what true support looks like. 👏
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🙌We are delighted to announce that the Highland Business Women 2025 Charity of the Year is.... 🥁
✨️✨️RASASH✨️✨️
We can't wait to get to work with this fantastic charity!! Stay tuned as we will be bringing you more on that partnership very soon!!
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our shortlisted charities who presented today. We were humbled to hear of the truly wonderful work they all do. They are all so deserving of our support and the vote is never easy. We know the members who attended and voted today had a really difficult decision on their hands. Thank you again to:
💫 The Oxygen Works 💫
💫 Snap Inverness 💫
💫 Highland BlindCraft 💫
💫 Brent Centre Highlands 💫
We would also again like to thank all of the charities who applied to become our 2025 Charity of the Year. We were overwhelmed with the volume of applications submitted this year and the quality of those applications. We are surrounded by such wonderful charities here in the Highlands.
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To buy tickets in advance for this wonderful event go to
buytickets.at/thebikeshed/1627184
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Brilliant window display at Rebel Row Inverness for international womens day.
Delighted to have spotted HVAWP work amongst it all.
Thank you 💕
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Today on International Women's Day, we celebrate women in policing who bravely and selflessly serve our communities, often putting themselves in harms way to protect the public and keep people safe.
Emily Miller became the first female investigation officer (or "lady assistant") in September 1915 in the City of Glasgow Police, attached to CID to take statements from women and children for sexual assault and abuse cases. She was not employed as a "policewoman" until 1919, and finally gained the power of arrest in 1924. Scotland's first paid and uniformed "policewoman" was Jean Thomson in the Dundee City Police in 1918.
Now, over 100 years on, the "WPC" rank is gone, and women serve in all ranks in Police Scotland, from Constable to Chief Constable. ... See MoreSee Less
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Happy International Women's Day! For #InternationalWomensDay 2025, the #accelerateaction campaign amplifies the importance of gender equality. This year's campaign underscores the crucial role of #inclusion in achieving #genderequality. It calls for increased momentum and urgency in addressing the systemic barriers and biases that women face, both in personal and professional spheres. 👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽👩🏼👩🏻👩
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For this international women's day, please share far and wide these powerful words.
'Rights' by Myra Ross
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This international women's day we would like to take this moment to celebrate the women and girls all around the world.
We would also like to applaud the fantastic work that goes on here at home in Highland amongst women of all cultures.
Here is just one example:
These first three images below depict the inspirational work that has been carried out by the Highland Multicultural Friends group who contributed to the #SewTheirNames campaign in 2024 - a reminder to the world that the dead are not numbers – they have NAMES. The SewTheirNames banner has been included in the Palestine Museum US exhibition opening alongside the Venice Biennale this year.
Aside from their involvement in campaigning this group provides a friendly community for women and children and offers language lessons, sewing, food making, craft, a kids club and a creche.
You can find more information about this group here Highland Multicultural Friends
Happy International Women's Day!
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Happy International Women's Day!
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Have your say.....NHS Highland’s Equality Outcomes consultation is open until January 15th 2025.
Every four years NHS Highland sets out what it will do to tackle inequalities faced by our staff and service users, making sure equality is in every part of our day-to-day work. We want to know what people think of these equality outcomes, especially if this may have a direct impact on you, your family or someone you care for. Have your say on our Engagement Hub ow.ly/Vaeg50Up4ou
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Tackling VAWG is everyone’s business.
Can you answer the questions below and imagine.......
Thank you for following the 16 Days of Activism campaign.
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For everyone: Imagine a Scotland without violence against women and girls…
• How would you feel?
• Is there anything you would feel able to do if violence against women and girls did not exist?
• How would your life change or be different?
• What would you do differently in the daytime and at night?
• What would it feel like not to be commented on in the street?
• What would it mean for the economy?
• What would it mean for your children?
• Would we be healthier?
• What would your relationships be like?
• How would you raise/what would you say to your daughters/sons if you knew there was no more violence against women and girls in Scotland?
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Men engaging with the Imagine theme:
Violence against women and girls and gender inequality harms everyone in society, including men and boys. Gender norms place expectations on men and boys to meet unhealthy and impossible standards of masculinity, and men face additional risks as a result. Acknowledging the link between gender inequality and gender-based violence can help to engage men to be active allies in challenging the attitudes which contribute to the prevalence of violence and abuse. The 16 Days campaign is a key opportunity for men to engage in preventative, awareness-raising work on gender inequality.
For men: Imagine a Scotland without violence against women and girls…
• How would you feel? Why?
• How would this affect the women and girls in your life?
• What would be different for men and boys?
• What changes would you see for your children?
• What changes are you making to your behaviour now to achieve this?
• How do you challenge your friends’ families behaviours and attitudes to achieve this?
• Imagine we live at a time where there is no violence against women and girls. What was your contribution to make this happen
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VAWG is one of the most prevalent traumatic experiences.
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www.traumatransformation.scot/implementation/
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authenticvoice.scot/
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Women and girls experience more barriers than men when using the places around them, and are more likely to feel unsafe due to the risk of experiencing violence and harassment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbK865PQNL8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRyYHikI7RA&list=PLbUnhSM_PFtZDeagCDEQ4rx6tm4fVd_Ps
www.cseaware.org/
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Imagine a Scotland where we understand minority ethnic women and girls experiences and needs.
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www.gov.scot/publications/minoritised-ethnic-womens-experiences-domestic-abuse-barriers-help-seek...
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publichealthscotland.scot/publications/minority-ethnic-women-and-violence-against-women-and-girls....
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There is a disproportionate impact of poverty on women and children, and the intersection of VAWG.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUnhSM_PFtYenA4_6Wk7EBTBmkK1qxfE&feature=shared
www.improvementservice.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/8345/em-briefing-gendered-nature-of-pov...
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Imagine a Scotland where women have equal power and representation.
www.engender.org.uk/content/publications/SP2023NEW.pdf
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Disabled women face disproportionate risk of experiencing domestic abuse and other forms of VAWG.
www.wisewomen.org.uk/ourpublications
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Acknowledging the link between gender inequality and gender-based violence can help to engage men to be active allies in challenging the attitudes which contribute to the prevalence of violence and abuse.
that-guy.co.uk/
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