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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...

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...

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...

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

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