Times need Christian witness of Episcopal Church, Curry tells council (Episcopal Church in the United States of America)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016
Mally Lloyd, Executive Council member from the Diocese of Massachusetts, speaks June 8 during a meeting of council's Joint Standing Committee on Finances for Mission ... Curry told the Executive Council as it opened its June 8-10 meeting here ... 16 of the General Convention's vote to approve the ordination of women as priests and bishops ... Council met in its five committees during the afternoon of June 8....

Columbus City Council to consider harassment at women's health clinics

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 09 Jun 2016
An ordinance introduced on the Columbus City Council floor Monday has sparked a First Amendment debate by anti-abortion activists ... Columbus City Council member Elizabeth Brown was motivated to sponsor the ordinance by the national rise in intimidation and harassment around reproductive health-care sites, she said ... On the other hand, women and health-care providers have interests as well....

Executive Council Opening remarks from the President of the House of Deputies (Episcopal Church in the United States of America)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016
Gay Clark Jennings at the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, currently meeting through June 10 at the Oak Ridge Hotel and Conference Center in Chaska, Minnesota ... Opening Remarks Executive Council June 8, 2016 ... The last big meeting I went to was the Anglican Consultative Council in Lusaka, Zambia, and although it was a fascinating and rewarding meeting, I ate many of my meals sitting next to a crocodile pond....

Annika Sorenstam Receives "KPMG Inspire Greatness Award"

Edit PR Newswire 09 Jun 2016
NEW YORK, June 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- LPGA legend and entrepreneur Annika Sorenstam received the 2016 KPMG Inspire Greatness Award today at the KPMG Women's Leadership Summit. Awarded by the KPMG Women's Leadership Summit advisory council with the support of the PGA of ... ....

Baileys prize goes to The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

Edit The Guardian 09 Jun 2016
Irish black comedy gets ‘110% support’ from jury led by Apprentice star Margaret Mountford to win £30,000 award for fiction by women. Lisa McInerney, who started her career as a writer with a blog about life on a council estate in the “Arse End of Ireland”, has won the Baileys women’s prize for fiction with her debut novel, beating Man Booker winner Anne Enright and bestseller Hanya Yanagihara to the £30,000 award....

ASEAN & Women in Sport (Gymnastics Australia Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016
Now retired from competing, Wei will attend the inaugural 'Building Leadership Capacity of Women in Sport Conference' in Singapore from June 11 to 14 ... The project is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-ASEAN Council (AAC) of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ... Experts from Australia will work with participants from a range of experience levels with the goal to empower women as leaders in sport....

Perceptions of a 'normal' body image distorted by media and trends in beauty practices (University of Birmingham)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016
A team of researchers led by the University of Birmingham say that the demands of beauty routines particularly for women are increasing, with perceptions of a 'normal' body image changing fast ... Members of the Beauty Demands network made a series of recommendations in a policy briefing, The Changing Requirements of Beauty, delivered to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in London today....

Local women react to Hillary Clinton as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee

Edit Ohio 09 Jun 2016
Some Akron-area women were thrilled at the possibility of a woman leading the country for the first time in its history. Others said they weren’t inclined to support her, and one professor talked about the double standards women face in politics. “I literally got goose bumps watching her speech Tuesday night,” said Summit County Council President Ilene Shapiro....

Trump to Hold Summit with 900 Religious Leaders

Edit Breitbart 09 Jun 2016
Concerned Women for America CEO and President Penny Nance is a co-sponsor for the event with Trump, where close to 900 religious leaders will meet ... and Family Research Council....

More than 19 lakh people to be trained over next 10 years in oil and gas sector

Edit The Times of India 09 Jun 2016
The Hydrocarbon Skill Sector Council (HSSC), set up by the government under its Skill India initiative, has prepared a road map for training people in the sector. It has projected the need to train 19 lakh people, including the younger men and women that would join workforce through the decade as well as the existing employees engaged permanently or on short-term contracts with oil firms....

18-year-old girl burnt alive by mother for marrying lover

Edit Indian Express 09 Jun 2016
Around 1,000 women are murdered for honor each year in Pakistan for allegedly defying conservating norms on love (Source ... 3 }); }); ... Nearly 1,000 women are killed each year in so-called “honor killings” in Pakistan for allegedly violating conservative norms on love and marriage ... A month earlier, police arrested 13 members of a local tribal council who allegedly strangled a girl and set her on fire for helping a friend elope....

ACTU releases Our Voice, our Future report (ACTU - Australian Council of Trade Unions)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016
ACTU - Australian Council of Trade Unions). The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) launches Our Voice, Our Future today (Thursday 9 June 2016), a set of key priorities to support Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander workers in their communities and workplace ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men on average are dying at 55.4 years of age; women at 61.5....

Media Release - Storm Hotline for Affected Residents (Warringah Council)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016
Warringah Council) ... Northern Beaches Council has established a 24hour Storm Hotline - 9942 2557 - to assist storms and flood affected residents from Collaroy, Narrabeen and North Narrabeen ... Council will prioritise these calls and will provide information as quickly as possible....
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