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Join ERA and WWDA for a panel discussion of the digital world seen through the eyes of young people with disability.
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Join ERA and WWDA for a panel discussion of the digital world seen through the eyes of young people with disability.
Gender and climate change: Australian NGOs stand up for greater support and role for women facing environmental risks. From today, the UN’s annual meeting on gender, known as the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place. This year’s negotiations are the 66th session of CSW and will formally take place with hybrid […]
Gender and climate change: Australian NGOs stand up for greater support and role for women facing environmental risks. From today, the UN’s annual meeting on gender, known as the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place. This year’s negotiations are the 66th session of CSW and will formally take place with hybrid […]
ERA’s op-ed on the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 has been published in the Canberra Times. Check it out by clicking here.
ERA has made submissions to the two inquiries into the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021. ERA fully supports the implementation of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, but this Bill changes the human right to freedom to manifest religion in fundamental ways that has the potential to limit the human rights of women and […]
ERA has joined with 9 peak bodies to express our concern about the potential effects of the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021. ERA is deeply concerned that the Bill in its present form will contribute to building workplace and community cultures which are hostile to women’ leadership and safety. This press release was coordinated and led […]
ERA’s National Gender Equality Plan project aims to produce a comprehensive, holistic gender equality plan that brings together key recommendations from civil society for Federal-level policy actions and identify gaps that require further research and policy attention. The Plan is in response to the need for a holistic and interconnected approach to policy responses to gender […]
“Historically, the Bangkok Regional Review meetings have provided more space for civil society than many other forums, with the negotiation opened to the observation of – and therefore are accountable to – civil society; women’s organisations and feminist groups. The annual negotiations at the CSW in New York, in comparison, are closed and as such […]
“When the government decides to spend taxpayer dollars they’re not focusing on what we need to be safe, to be financially secure, to be equal. The sort of things I’m talking about are unexpected things like, what’s our trade policy doing for women? What’s the policy on rural and regional infrastructure doing?” Dalley-Fisher said. ERA […]
Over 50 people joined us (in person and online) last week for the National Women’s Alliance’s #CSW63 pre-departure briefing. There was a great deal of information sharing and connecting before take off for the UN Commission on the Status of Women next month! Participants heard from previous delegates, workshopped issues and CSW strategy and received training in “internationalising” […]
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