"Catcalls, sexist or sexual comments, homophobic and transphobic slurs, flashing, groping, stalking, and assault in public spaces. Gender-based street harassment is a global problem. It makes us feel less safe, it restricts where we go. IT MUST END. Join us April 12-18, 2015, as we rally, march, and hold workshops, tweet chats, wheatpasting and chalkwalks [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, many of the links we’ve highlighted focus on the huge contributions that dedicated staff in frontline services make to the community in Australia and around the world. While they are often given a backseat in the media, these individuals commit themselves to assisting [...]
Attorney-General Senator the Hon. George Brandis and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash have announced that current levels of Commonwealth funding of Legal Aid Commissions, Community Legal Centres (except Environmental Defenders Offices) and Indigenous legal assistance will continue for another two years. In their announcement, the Government acknowledge the crucial [...]
"On 21 December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 March as the International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims. The purpose of the Day is to: - Honour the memory of victims of gross and systematic human rights violations and promote [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, many of the stories we highlight deal with increases in violence against women during and after natural disasters. This is a clear example of the need to look at events in our society through a gender lens. In 2012, our sister alliances, economic [...]
"The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid "pass laws". Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the General Assembly called on the international community to redouble [...]
This panel will be jointly hosted by AWAVA and WESNET at 12:30pm in the Hardin Room, Church Center United Nations (CCUN), 777 UN Plaza Speakers: Julie Oberin (Chair of AWAVA and WESNET) Pauline Woodbridge (Coordinator, North Queensland Domestic & Family Violence Resource Service (NQDVRS), WESNET Member) Margaret Augerinos (AWAVA, WESNET) For more information about AWAVA's [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, we have highlighted efforts from across the country and the globe to bring conversations about violence against women into the public sphere. Attitudes and beliefs about gender and violence allow this issue to continue and fester in our society, but these conversations offer [...]
This panel will be hosted by AWAVA with WESNET, End Violence Against Women (UK), Imkaan, and Scottish Women’s Aid at 12:30pm at V Hall, Armenian Convention Center (630 2nd Ave, NY, NY) Speakers: Julie Oberin (Chair of AWAVA and WESNET) Lesley Ann Foster (Masimanyane Women’s Support Centre) Jackie Jones (President, European Women Lawyers Association, Chair, [...]
Thursday, 12 March 2015 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (AEDT) Theatre 1 Manning Clark Centre Union Court Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2611 Australia Price: FREE "The Pamela Denoon Lecture was inaugurated in 1989 as a tribute to the memory of Pamela Denoon and as a reminder that the gains that have been made by [...]