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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
Carolyn appointed to the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s National OPCAT Advisory Group
We are delighted to announce that our CEO, Carolyn Frohmader, has been appointed to the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s National OPCAT (Optional...
- Date 29 September 22
Join our WWDA LEAD Peer Networking October 19!
This will be our last Peer Networking for 2022! Do you want to connect with other disabled women? Join our...
- Date 26 September 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 3 – Challenging and transforming traditional views of leadership
Women with disabilities are not problems to be ‘fixed’, we are problem solvers. Women With Disabilities Australia’s (WWDA) LEAD Project’s...
- Category Employment and Education
- Category LEAD
- Date 19 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...
Join our WWDA LEAD Peer Networking September 21!
Do you want to connect with other disabled women? Join our monthly LEAD virtual peer networking event. Chat to other women,...
- Date 29 August 22
How can you LEAD in your business?
Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is a Disabled People’s Organisation for women, girls, feminine identifying people, and nonbinary folk with...
WWDA at ESCAP
In July, our staff member Saphia Grant virtually attended a United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the...
Webinar: Sexual and Reproductive Rights for People with Disability
Supporting each other, to support ourselves Join us as we kick off Women’s Health Week with a webinar on sexual...
- Category Sexuality and Health
- Date 17 August 22
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