Preventing the Practice of FGM/C in Primary Schools. Image by Jessica Lea/UK DFID We’ve all been guilty of it: voicing our dissatisfaction and anger at the things that are unfair and unjust and then proceeding to do nothing about them.…
60 seconds with Monique Hameed
Australian Indigenous Studies Tutor and MCWH Project Officer What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Working at the MCWH! Also I’ve been enjoying my work with the Undercurrent Community Education Project doing workshops around sex and consent in the…
Funding for Multicultural Centre to support FGM/C awareness
Today marks Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation Day. The Australian Government has taken this opportunity to announce funding of more than $265,000 for MCWH to deliver the National Education Toolkit for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Awareness (NETFA) project…
The WRAP # 28: Party Spoilers, 2014 Highlights and 60 seconds with Hale Yildiz
Can it be that we are at the end of another year? It feels like we have come a long way in such a short space of time. Thanks to everyone who has supported us this year, we feel like…
The Highlights of 2014
The end of the year can be strange mixture of merriment and mayhem and in the rush to wrap it up, we can lose sight of the many things that have already have been accomplished. And we’re not just talking…
Celebrating the Party Spoilers
Untitled (Sergey Sus/flickr) Whether it’s the end-of-year work parties, the start-of-summer BBQs or family get-togethers, for many of us December is a time of intense socialising. That’s why December is also a particularly dangerous month for becoming ‘the party spoiler’.…
60 seconds with Hale Yildiz
Politics enthusiast, blogger and Latin dancer What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I am really enjoying having more time to dance! Having had an extremely busy schedule this last year, I had completely forgotten what I was missing…
MCWH goes to Mt Eliza
Last Saturday, MCWH had the opportunity to take part in a community education program for immigrant and refugee women run by AMES (the largest provider of humanitarian settlement, education, training and employment services for refugees and newly arrived migrants). As…
The WRAP #27: Where to from here?, Where is the data? and 60 seconds with Kristine Olaris
Hi there WRAP readers! As you are probably well aware, we’re visiting your inboxes in the midst of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. Our friends at Women’s Health East have produced this fabulous video in case you…
Next steps to prevent violence against all women
It is such a positive thing that violence against women is now more acknowledged, recognised and understood than it has been in the past. At all levels of our community we hear statements confirming that violence against women is wrong…