Equality Rights Alliance

25 July 

The Melbourne Youth Force held a Press Conference on Tuesday July 22 to release the ground breaking Youth Action Plan, as well as to highlight the key advocacy messages of Treat all People. Respect all rights, END HIV/AIDS.

The 2014 Youth Action Plan states “The needs of adolescents and young people cannot be ignored any longer. Despite the advances in the fight against AIDS, we are experiencing a crisis in the adolescent and youth pandemic.

We have the tools to address this crisis, but we need governments, policy makers, and healthcare professionals to commit to real and effective change by 2020.

We need to TREAT.REFORM.EDUCATE.LOVE”

Listen to another podcast from the World YWCA delegation to the 2014 International AIDS Conference. This podcast features women from different communities affected by HIV and is an opportunity to hear from affected communities about what needs to be done to put their needs and concerns at the forefront of the HIV response. 

23 July 

Hear some of the amazing stories from the young women leaders in the World YWCA delegation to the International AIDS Conference. This podcast covers the Young Women Speak Up event this week which celebrated the stories, lives and experiences of young women. 

22 July

Equality Rights Alliance has joined with the World YWCA delegation to the International AIDS Conference to hear key sexual and reporductive health insights. Yen Erikson from the YWCA delegation has put together this podcast of interviews with young people at the conference from the first day. Enjoy!

4 July

Last week the Federal government launched the Second Action Plan 2013-16 - Moving Ahead as part of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022. The Action Plan focusses on violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, culturally and linguistically diverse women and women with disability. 

A Senate inquiry into Domestic Violence in Australia is underway. The terms of reference for this inquiry are available here. The closing date for submissions is 31 July with reporting due 27 October. More information on preparing a submission to the inquiry is available here. 

27 June

The National Council for Single Mothers and their Children, an ERA member, has made their submission to the current Parliamentary Inquiry into the Child Support Program. You can read the submission here. 

The due date for submission to this inquiry has recently been extended to Friday, 4 July. The Committee is due to report on the findings from this Inquiry early next year. For information on submissions and  public hearings, visit the Inquiry webpage.

20 June

Registration has opened for the Sisters Inside Is Prison Obsolete? conference. This conference will explore and encourage discussion about abolition and altneratives to prison over three days. Key note speaks include:

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  • Angela Davis, Author and Activist
  • Antoinette Braybrook, Aboriginal Family Violence and Prevention and Legal Service in Victoria
  • Priscilla Collins, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
  • and Debbie Kilroy, Sisters Inside. 

Register here: http://ow.ly/yflWo