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Peer Networking March 2023
Join us for March Peer Networking! Click here or the button below to register. Date: March 29 2023 Time: 12-1.30pm...
- Category LEAD
- Date 23 February 23
WWDA LEAD Mentoring Program – What’s next?
Have you recently signed up to the WWDA LEAD Mentoring Program and wondering what you do next? You can do...
- Date 22 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 online events at CSW67!
While the official sessions of The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) are only open to registered representatives, there...
- Date 14 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
Peer Networking February 2023
Our first Peer Networking event for 2023 is happening on the last Wednesday in February, which is only two weeks...
- Category LEAD
- Date 25 January 23
Peer Networking for 2023
WWDA LEAD Peer Networking is returning in February 2023! We are so happy to bring this online networking opportunity via...
- Category LEAD
- Date 5 January 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
WWDA LEAD Mentoring Welcome Packs
The WWDA LEAD Mentoring Program is still taking applications for both mentors and mentees. And as an added bonus, the...
- Date 20 December 22
WWDA Youth Podcast with Claire Bertholli – Youth Leadership
For our last episode of the series and of the year, guest host Margherita Dall’Occo-Vaccaro interviews Claire Bertholli, a youth...
- Category Youth Network
- Date 19 December 22
WWDA Members announced as finalists in National Awards for Disability Leadership!
The National Awards for Disability Leadership are an annual event held by the Disability Leadership Institute. They recently announced their...
- Category Leadership and Participation
- Date 1 December 22
2022 WWDA Annual General Meeting
Women with Disabilities (Australia) Incorporated (the “Incorporated Association”) gives notice that the WWDA Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held...
- Date 28 November 22
WWDA LEAD Leadership Week success!
Last Week the WWDA LEAD Project Team hosted a hybrid (in-person and online) meeting & leadership event for the WWDA...
- Category LEAD
- Category Leadership and Participation
- Date 22 November 22
16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
Each year WWDA joins the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign to call for the prevention and elimination...
- Date 22 November 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
WWDA LEAD Leadership Week kicks off
This week the WWDA staff have a rare opportunity to come together and hold an in-person and online Leadership Week...
- Category LEAD
- Date 14 November 22
The WWDA LEAD Project has been extended
We are excited to share that due to its overwhelming success, we are extending the WWDA LEAD (Lead, Engage, Activate...
- Category LEAD
- Date 14 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
Towards Reproductive Justice for YWGwD
WWDA and the WWDA Youth Network
- Category Sexuality and Health
- Category Youth Network
- Date 8 November 22
Principle 5 – Nothing about us, without us
Inclusion, not segregation Women with disabilities are experts in knowing what their access and support needs are in the workforce....
- Category Employment and Education
- Category LEAD
- Date 25 October 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 LEAD Mentoring
Apply now for the WWDA LEAD Mentoring Program! We’re excited to announce we have launched our new WWDA LEAD mentoring...
- Category LEAD
- Date 17 October 22
Principle 4 – Care for self to care for community
The relationships we have with ourselves, and others are the most important resources that we have. At Women With Disabilities...
- Category LEAD
- Date 3 October 22