What does equity and justice for women in the west of Melbourne mean to you? Take a photo and send it to comms@whwest.org.au before 15 February 2013.
Here’s an example of the sort of thing we’re looking for:
More of the older residents in Melbourne’s west are women; a gendered approach is essential to support their needs
You don’t have to be a pro, just take a photo of what represents equity and justice (or inequity and injustice!) in your daily life.
The image could be about the gender pay gap, housing, public transport, employment, education, racism and discrimination, disability, poverty, social isolation, family violence, gendered stereotypes and gender roles or anything that you’ve noticed affecting women in the western region.
Are you dynamic, collaborative and passionate about preventing violence against women?
We seek two women who are strategic thinkers, with a flair for networking, and who have knowledge of and/or experience in prevention of violence against women.
The recent global climate change summit in Doha produced a declaration calling for the protection and promotion of health to be made the one of the central priorities of global and national policy responses to climate change.
While it isn’t specific to women, it does call for more inclusive consultation and lists women as one of the groups that need to be included – and there was a ‘gender day’ at the summit to provide further traction to this end.
Women are more vulnerable to the impacts of rising prices, to heatwave impacts, to increasing violence after disasters, and that women currently are largely absent from high level decision making about responses to climate change.
The declaration calls for:
You can sign here as an organisation or as an individual: Doha Declaration on Climate, Health and Wellbeing
Our Community, Our Rights offers practical training for women from Burma on human rights, making change and Australian democracy. It will be fun, interactive and enable you to make change in your world.
We need to know what’s important to you to plan the best training, so during January and February 2013 we’ll be asking women from Burma who are living, working or studying in Melbourne’s west about:
Please contact Shifrah Blustein on 9689 9588 or email shifrah@whwest.org.au
Women's Health West acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work, the people of the Kulin Nation, and we pay our respects to Elders and community members past and present. We express solidarity with the ongoing struggle for land rights, self-determination, sovereignty and the recognition of past injustices. We express our hope for reconciliation and justice.
Women's Health West acknowledges the support of a number of funding bodies including:
