Mi Nguyen - Multicultural Centre For Women's Health

Webinar: Kathryn Aedy on Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities

Mark your calendars! Our PVAW (Prevention of Violence Against Women) Team Leader, Kathryn Aedy, will be speaking on a webinar hosted by ANROWS about the ‘Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities’.…

Radio interview with our ED, Adele Murdolo on Rete Italia

Tune into Rete Italia at 11:30am today for an interview with our ED, Adele Murdolo. She’ll be talking about our work and how she got involved over 20 years go! This radio station is mostly in Italian but our program…

The WRAP #85: Time for universal healthcare, Social solidarity in a time of physical distance and 60 seconds with Alejandra Pineda

What a difference a month makes. For all of us, the world we live in, the way we spend each day, the conversations we are having and how we are having them, have all changed rapidly and will continue to…

It’s time for true universal healthcare

Remember to take precautions against COVID-19 with this catchy Vietnamese song In a health crisis, disadvantage and discrimination don’t disappear. In fact, there is ample evidence to suggest that social, economic and health inequities intensify and deepen. For migrant women,…

Physical distance, social solidarity

MCWH staff members staying connected while working from home In the past few weeks, we have seen sweeping changes and widespread expressions of fear across Australia and the globe. Panic buying, the closure of restaurants and places of worship, racist…

60 Seconds with Alejandra Pineda, PVAW Project Officer

Alejandra Pineda is a Prevention of Violence Against Women Project Officer at MCWH What is the best part of your day? I enjoy the ritual of drinking my very first cup of coffee at home, while reading the news and…

MCWH service changes until June: a response to COVID-19

At Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health, we’re aware that the COVID-19 outbreak has serious impacts on the health and wellbeing of migrant and refugee women, including our participants and staff. To best respond to this situation, we’re changing the way…

WRAP: International Women’s Day 2020 edition

Happy International Women’s Day (IWD)! This year’s theme #GenerationEquality brings together women’s rights activists for gender equality. We’re thrilled to be part of this campaign and have been hosting #IWDMCWH events across Victoria with women in the community. Our week-long…

Advancing the Evidence on Reproductive Choice

Advancing the Evidence on reproductive choice It is 1961. You are 23 years old, fresh-faced and having finally arrived, relieved. You step off a passenger ship and Melbourne’s port greets you with a chilly June day. There is activity all…

WRAP #84: Migrant women’s health in rural and regional areas, NETFA FGM/C campaign, 60 seconds with Arundathi Lekshmi

Welcome back to our first WRAP for the year! And the eve of our National Conference! We won’t sleep from the excitement! For many of us, the excitement a new decade brings has been overshadowed somewhat by some national and…

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