Author: Mi Nguyen

Media Release

Media release: Towards a Gender Equal Recovery: Jobs for Migrant and Refugee Women  

A consortia of 12 Women’s Health Services and Gender Equity Victoria (GEN VIC) have employed 50 migrant and refugee women to form a rapid response workforce to train women to disseminate COVID-19 information and deliver multilingual women’s health education in…
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MCWH in the Media

Multilingual women are countering vaccine hesitancy in Victoria’s culturally diverse communities

Excerpted from ABC News By Bridget Rollason Accessed 17 May 2021 “Vaccine confidence is very low amongst women … for migrant women it’s the problem of not having access to the information,” Adele Murdolo, executive director for the Multicultural Centre for…
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Are you safe at home? flyers in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dari, English, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Karen, Khmer, Macedonian, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish, Vietnamese

Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic) and Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV) has developed flyers about abuse and violence at home. These flyers were checked and verified by Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health’s trained Health Educators. Are you safe at…
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MCWH in the Media

Grace, like most women, has been harassed on the street. But her abuse is also racist

SBS News Accessed 16 April 2021 By Fernanda Fain-Binda Excerpt: It’s Not a Compliment also wants to draw attention to the increase in racialised harassment, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Maria Hach, senior research and advocacy officer at the Multicultural…
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What needs to change in Australia’s handling of violence against women?

Radio segment Radio National Breakfast with Cathy Van Extel After months of allegations of assault, rape and demeaning and sexualised attacks on women, there are hopes a new cabinet taskforce will tackle the root causes of these problems, including reforming…
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The WRAP #95: When non-racist language is not enough, Women and the workplace and 60 Seconds with Sanduni De Silva

This WRAP, we write about the role the language can play in fuelling anti-Asian hate, the importance of listening to migrant women workers, and spend 60 Seconds with Sanduni De Silva.
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