Sheila Griffin

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Norbiton Estate - bathroom

Another bathroom

A new window put in this house, the wall crumbled with the damp.

The wall is breaking up with damp.

Another great event put on by the Cambridge Road Estates Community Group

Everyone enjoyed themselves and the food was great.

As a member of the Soroptimists I was able to go with nealy 90 other members to meet and question the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith.  The questions were wide ranging, with many on 'Trafficking of Women and Children'.  It was a very interesting experience and a first visit to the Home Office.

There is very little chance for the Government to support the Fourth Option, one reason being that any borrowing by Councils will come on the Public Finance Borrowing Requirement, PFBR.  Housing Associations can borrow on the open market.

Mary Honeyball MEP organised this Symposium as a launch for a campaign to gather signatures on a Written Declaration to the European Parliament.  (Similar to Early Day Motions in Westminster).

 There were a number of speakers.  One strong message was that prostitution is a barrier towards equality, but makes women objects not human beings, it is modern slavery.  It also indicates the status of women in society.  Gunella Ekburg talked about the new law in Sweden, where it is against the law to pay for sex.  Traffickers, pimps, and  users should be charged in the same trial.  Italy also has strong laws and allows those giving evidence to be shielded from the traffickers.  At present the U.K. is seen as a good country in which to traffick women and children. 

Myself with Mary Honeyball.

More will be heard about this subject in the near future.

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