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WWDA at Senate Public Hearing on ‘Universal access to reproductive healthcare’
On the 28 February at 1:15pm, WWDA’s Executive Director, Carolyn Frohmader, will be speaking at the Senate Public Hearing on...
- Category Human Rights
- Category Sexuality and Health
- Date 27 February 23
Media Release: Smartphones need to be easy for people with disabilities to use, and UN has a role to play
23 February 2023 Smartphones and other information computer systems are notoriously hard to use if you have a disability and...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 23 February 23
Our Site’s third-year anniversary event – Storytelling workshop
This March is the third anniversary of the launch of Our Site! To celebrate the anniversary, Our Site will hold...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 21 February 23
WWDA at Indigenous Wellbeing Conference
This year, WWDA was able to send two attendees to the Indigenous Wellbeing Conference, Youth Network Member Lily Hodgson and...
- Category Human Rights
- Category Leadership and Participation
- Date 16 February 23
WWDA at this years 67th session of CSW!
We are excited to announce that WWDA will be attending and hosting three parallel events at the 67th Session of...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 9 February 23
Webinar: Empowering women with disability in a digital world
Online panel discussion on the Commission on the Status of Women 67th Session (CSW67) priority theme presented by Equality Rights...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 3 February 23
Sexual and Reproductive Rights Webinar – Recording now available!
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our webinar on the 13th of December 2022 on sexual and...
- Category Human Rights
- Category Sexuality and Health
- Date 21 December 22
Former WWDA President, Karin Swift, left for hours on plane due to inaccessible airport infrastructure
Karin Swift, prominent disability advocate, former WWDA president, and lifetime member, was forced to return to Melbourne Airport after sitting...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 22 November 22
The impact of climate change and natural disaster on disabled people in Australia
Kelly Cox is the Vice President of People with Disabilities Australia and Co-Lead of the 2022 CoSP Civil Society delegation....
- Category Human Rights
- Date 9 November 22
National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032
On Monday, 17 October 2022, The Commonwealth, state and territory governments released the National Plan to End Violence against Women...
- Category Human Rights
- Category Violence and Safety
- Date 18 October 22
WWDA at the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
This week WWDA LEAD Project Manager, Saph is in Meanjin/Brisbane for the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction....
- Category Human Rights
- Category Leadership and Participation
- Date 21 September 22
Principle 2 – Value diversity and lived experience
Promoting the status of women and girls with disabilities in all our diversity. Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) recognises the...
Sexual and Reproductive Rights Webinar Update
The Sexual and Reproductive Rights for People with Disabilities webinar, which was to be held today, Monday 5 September 2022,...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 5 September 22
Principle 1 – Lead by lifting others up
Leadership that creates space for others to join, feel and be heard too. Women with Disabilities Australia’s (WWDA) first leadership...
WWDA at ESCAP
In July, our staff member Saphia Grant virtually attended a United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the...
National Women’s Alliances Forum
In late June, WWDA CEO Carolyn Frohmader, attended the two-day forum of the National Women’s Alliances (NWAs) – held in...
- Category Government Laws and Policy
- Category Human Rights
- Date 15 August 22
WWDA at COSP
WWDA had a significant presence at COSP this year with our youth delegate Margherita Dall’Occo Vaccaro and Board member Kat...
- Category Human Rights
- Category Leadership and Participation
- Date 14 August 22
Our Site 2.0 Project Steering Committee has been selected
In July 2022, we announced WWDA’s newest project, Our Site 2.0. The project will increase the accessibility and usability of oursite.wwda.org.au and develop a newly...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 9 August 22
Our Site nominated for International Zero23 Award
WWDA’s Our Site Project was one of 319 nominations from 78 countries for #ZeroCall23! ** Update as of 13 August...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 19 July 22
Announcing WWDA Our Site 2.0
Between 2018 and 2020, WWDA developed a virtual centre for women, girls, feminine identifying, and non-binary people called Our Site ( Link...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 12 July 22
WWDA COSP 2022 Side Event: Our Site Empowering Women and Girls with Disability through Co-Design
The WWDA team is excited to host a virtual side event at the United Nations Conference of state parties (COSP)...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 7 June 22
Media Release: Women have spoken: new government urged to prioritise structural reform
Media Release Monday, May 23 2022 National Women’s Alliances have congratulated the incoming ALP Government and all new members of...
- Category Government Laws and Policy
- Category Human Rights
- Date 24 May 22
Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP15)
This year, the 15th session of the United Nations Conference of State Parties (COSP) to the Convention on the Rights...
- Category Human Rights
- Date 24 May 22
MEDIA RELEASE: Four Corners Guardianship Expose Reveals the Stark Reality of Many Women With Disabilities
Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is saddened and outraged at the events that were portrayed in last night’s ABC Four Corners...
WWDA NGO CSW Presentation on Our Site Recording Now Available!
On 15 March 2022, WWDA presented at the 2022 NGOCSW forum about our Our Site website, made by and for...
- Category Human Rights
- Category Leadership and Participation
- Date 15 March 22