WHY DO WE EXIST? - the formal statement

The objects of the Women's Rights Action Network Australia are to facilitate Australian activism for the promotion and protection of women's human rights in domestic and international arenas through:

  • education and training for women in Australia to ensure that national and international human rights mechanisms are accessible, understandable and relevant in the lives of women in Australia;
     

  • training for women in Australia to enable their participation in national and international human rights machineries;
     

  • advocacy for effective national and international mechanisms for the promotion and protection of women's human rights within Australia and more broadly;
     

  • documentation and raising awareness of women's human rights violations and abuses within Australian society.

     
    • WRANA recognises the indivisibility of human rights, and the need to develop informed critiques on the current human rights system, particularly relating to the capacity of the human rights framework to respond to the diversity of women's experiences through the application of an intersectional definition of discrimination.


    Members of the Women's Rights Action Network - Australia endorse the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and work towards the creation of a society which respects and protects all human rights.

    How do we take care of business?