Contents WWDA project featured in The Guardian Carolyn Frohmader photographed for portrait project WWDA Publication: Preventing Violence Against Women New App to assist women access specialist violence services WWDA to be represented on Tasmanian Government Family Violence Action Plan consultative group Domestic violence more severe against women with disabilities, research shows Monica Tan, The Guardian,…
In This Edition Policy submissions Events and activities General news WWDA Youth Network Recent WWDA Policy Submissions WWDA has been working hard to ensure that the voices of our members, and indeed, all women and girls with disabilities are represented, acknowledged and valued in national and international policy that concerns us. Our recent submissions are…
Women With Disabilities Australia: ‘Preventing Violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities: Integrating A Human Rights Perspective’. By Carolyn Frohmader (WWDA), Associate Professor Leanne Dowse (UNSW) and Dr Aminath Didi (UNSW) (January 2015)[PDF] [Word] Current policies and discourses around addressing and preventing violence against women in Australia have locked us into a particular way of…
“In 2007, Alice Goltz gave birth to a baby girl. But before she left the hospital, she says two men from the Vermont Department of Children and Families walked into her room. A hospital nurse had tipped them off, she says. The men told Goltz that because of her disability, she couldn’t go home with…