REPORTS AND EDUCATION MATERIALS


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Advocacy - to the Australian Government

Submission in support for the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, 1999 PDF HTML

Schedule of endorsements for submission, 1999 PDF HTML

Support for the Sex Discrimination Act following Howard Government plan to introduce amendments to restrict access for single women and lesbians to reproductive technologies PDF

Submission on government proposals to amend reservations to CEDAW, 1999 PDF HTML

Submission on the consistency of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, with the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 2000 PDF HTML

Submission to the Office for the Status of Women on Australia's implementation of CEDAW, 1999 PDF HTML

Submission on Australia's relations with the UN in a Post-Cold War Environment, 2000 PDF HTML

Submission on government actions to address the trafficking of women, 2003 PDF Word

Australia's implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action: evidence from the First Australian Tribunal on Women's Human Rights   PDF

 

Advocacy - to the United Nations

Resolving to Change Women's Experiences of Poverty, Submission to the 2002 Commission on the Status of Women PDF HTML

Suggested changes to the draft Beijing Plus Five "Outcomes Document", 2000  PDF HTML

Shadow Report on Australia's implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: 'Retreating from the Full Realisation of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Australia, 2000 PDF HTML

Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Mandatory Sentencing and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights PDF HTML


Education

Everyday: Intersections of Gender and Racism, An Awareness Raising Kit for Women's Organisations

An awareness raising kit for community and women's organisations. Everyday addresses the intersections of gender and race discrimination. It will help organisations who want to increase their understanding of the ways in which women experience multiple forms of discrimination, and outlines possible organisational responses.  The Kit contains

  •  “Concept Sheets” which explain the ideas behind the term “intersectional discrimination”

  •  “Fact Sheets” exploring the ways in which women living in Australia experience intersectional discrimination in the areas of health, education, government decision making, violence, housing, the economy, and the law

  • “Strategy Papers” outlining actions organizations can take to better respond to the needs of women who experience intersectional discrimination, and

  • A workshop plan and exercises organizations can use with members to increase understanding of the issues raised in the Kit

 

My Rights, Your Rights

In 1999 fourteen women made Australian human rights history when they testified about their experiences of human rights violations in Australia. The women’s testimonies tracked the practices of racism, sexism, homophobia, economic discrimination, age discrimination and violence against women.  These testimonies formed the basis for the education package, which has been designed to introduce senior secondary school students to human rights concerns in the Australian community. 

The Kit was initially developed with a video, however, these are no longer in production.  You can download from this website the thematic worksheets. The topics include: Refugees issues,  Young women and violence, Indigenous Rights, Prisoner’s Rights, Housing Rights, Domestic Violence, Sexuality Rights, Forced sterilisation of women with disabilities, Outworkers issues, Older women’s issues.

 

Putting Gender on the Agenda: A Gender Mainstreaming Resource Kit

 Over half Australia's population are women, so why isn't Gender on the Agenda? Although there are more women in Australia than men, the experiences and needs of women are still largely underrepresented in organisational structures, public discussion and decision making, surrounding policy and legislation initiatives.

 The WRANA Putting Gender on the Agenda Resource Kit is designed for organisations involved in policy or legislation analysis and advocacy that believe in achieving just outcomes for all members of our diverse community.  This pack gives organisations ideas for how to integrate women into policy advocacy. It provides a range of materials from around the country, and around the world, to support gender integration in the Australian policy and human rights context, and provides a practical guide for organisations interested in increasing gender responsiveness in their own activity.

 Each package contains:

  • Material defining gender and gender integration in the domestic and international context

  • Material and tools addressing the complexity and diversity of gender

  • Papers outlining how gender integration can be, and have been, implemented in the workplace

  • A selection of international Human Rights standards that relate to the status of women

  • A brief guide to Human Rights standards, and how they can be used in policy advocacy

This publication will be available shortly.