14 – 20 June is Refugee Week. There is a lot to learn about refugee experiences and many opportunities to show your support of refugee rights. We’re put together a small collection of resources for you: Refugee stories The Messenger…
Key Contacts in Migrant Women’s Prevention of Violence resource
For decades, migrant women have been preventing and responding to violence in migrant communities, fostering women’s leadership and holding men accountable to gender equality work. Yet, much of these efforts have been under-represented and under-funded. We are therefore so thrilled…
WRAP #87: Women’s sexual and reproductive health, violence against international students and 60 seconds with Hala Nasr
Dear WRAP-pers, Happy International Day of Action for Women’s Health! Today we are reminded to keep women’s sexual and reproductive health a priority on the COVID-19 response agenda. Although COVID-19 restrictions are slowly easing, migrant and refugee women’s barriers in…
WRAP #87: Keeping women’s health on the response agenda
Even before lockdown restrictions began to ease, many were already questioning whether the impact of the response measures has been worse than the impact of the pandemic itself. The economic evidence has shown that the current crisis has disproportionately affected…
WRAP #87: #HerNameIs
The red shoes protest in Mexico in 2020 against femicide. Credit: Canva Much has been written over the last few months about the significant hardship faced by Australian international students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates have expressed concerns about the…
WRAP #87: 60 Seconds with Hala Nasr, Project Officer
Hala Nasr is a MCWH Prevention of Violence Against Women Project Officer What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I’ve been indulging in science fiction/dystopia shows lately (much to the happiness of my hubby). I realised that immersing myself…
MCWH reads: Adele’s bedside stack
We love our books here at MCWH, and our Executive Director, Adele Murdolo has a great bedside stack! She’s currently reading: Bagheria by Dacia Maraini AM: I’m enjoying Maraini’s feminist memoir at the moment because it allows me to…
WRAP #86: Migrant essential workers, the cost of reproductive healthcare and 60 seconds with Eman Al-Dasuqi
WRAP #86: Migrant essential workers, the cost of reproductive healthcare and 60 seconds with Eman Al-Dasuqi Welcome to our fourth edition of the year! Into our seventh week of isolation, we’ve been busy working together-apart. This month, we began running…
Our community’s life support
Our community’s life support There is good news: compared with other parts of the world, Australia is doing an excellent job of flattening the coronavirus curve. Latest surveys also suggest that while feelings of anxiety, stress and boredom have spiked,…
Counting the reproductive health costs of COVID-19
Source: Unsplash Counting the reproductive health costs of COVID-19 Remember the days before COVID-19? Back when we could move freely and access whatever healthcare we needed? Anyone following the situation for migrant women in Australia would know that even pre-COVID-19,…