News
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
Join our WWDA LEAD Peer Networking August 17!
Do you want to connect with other disabled women? Join our monthly LEAD virtual peer networking event. Chat to other women,...
- 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 Board Member, Kat Reed, on #QandA: The Choice: Violence or Poverty
Last Friday night on July 8 2022, The ABC broadcast a Q+A episode that discussed the cruel choice facing Australian...
- Category Violence and Safety
- Date 11 July 22
Join our WWDA LEAD Peer Networking July 20!
Do you want to connect with other disabled women? Join our monthly LEAD virtual peer networking event. Chat to other women,...
- Category LEAD
- Date 7 July 22
WWDA Youth Podcast with Charlotte Young – Now available!
For our second last episode, Margherita, Youth Development Officer guest interviews WWDA Youth Advisory Group member and all round advocate...
- Category LEAD
- Category Youth Network
- Date 23 June 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
‘The LGBTIQA+ and Disability’ Webinar Recording
On 17 May, WWDA hosted a WWDA LEAD webinar ‘Intersections: LGBTIQA+ and Disability’ with a great panel of women and...
- Category LEAD
- Category Leadership and Participation
- Date 26 May 22
Join our WWDA LEAD Peer Networking on – June 15
Do you want to connect with other disabled women? Join our monthly LEAD virtual peer networking event. Chat to other women,...
- Category LEAD
- Date 24 May 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