The WRAP #72: The spirit of partnership, the gift of a lifetime and 60 seconds with Lilac Limpangog
Before we dive head-first into 2019, it’s always great to pause and think about what we accomplished. And what a year of growth and reflection! Not only has MCWH physically grown in size this year, with a host of brilliant…
WRAP #71: Hear Me Too, sexual harrassment and 60 seconds with Hoa Pham
If you haven’t noticed, the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence has begun! It’s a global campaign, it’s positive, it’s powerful and it is ORANGE! So orange in fact that Respect Victoria, our new statutory body to prevent violence…
#HearMeToo: celebrating migrant women’s work to prevent violence
This year marks the sixth incarnation of the United Nation’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign, and the theme for 2018 is #HearMeToo. The focus of the campaign is to bring to the forefront the voices of women…
How to change the culture of sexual harrassment
The Australian Human Rights Commission found that an astonishing 85% of Australian women have experienced sexual harassment in their workplace at some point in their lives. So far from being a horrible but random occurrence, sexual harassment in Australian workplaces…
60 seconds with Hoa Pham
Award-winning writer, playwright, Peril founder and newest MCWH project officer! What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Stopping and smelling the flowers. What is the best thing that happened to you today? Hugging my children. If you were a…
EQUAL Network Meeting
This year marks the sixth incarnation of the UN’s initiative – 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, with the theme for 2018 being #HearMeToo. The focus is on engaging local, national, regional and global women’s movements in an inclusive…
WRAP #70: Multicultural Centre for Women's Health turned 40 in style!
We did it! Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health has turned 40 and we are feeling stronger and healthier than ever! After many months of planning and counting down the days, last Thursday MCWH celebrated 40 years of history at our…
Migrant women take centre stage
Not three years ago, our bilingual educators visited the Langham Hotel to run health education sessions with the many migrant women who work there behind the scenes and are essential to the hotel’s operation. Last week we made sure that…
As needed now as 40 years ago
Excerpted from MCWH Board Chair Dr. Tamara Kwarteng’s Gala speech “MCWH started in 1978 as a solution to a serious problem. Migrant women at the time did not have access to information and education about their contraceptive and other reproductive…