We held our inaugural Multicultural Women’s Network meetup on 25th May. It was great opportunity to meet with other women from immigrant and refugee backgrounds who are engaged with, or working in the multicultural women’s space. The afternoon allowed us…
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World Congress on Public Health- Field Visit to MCWH (7th April 2017)
On the 3-7th April, the 15th World Congress on Public Health was held in Melbourne. During this time, The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) hosted a field visit where we were fortunate enough to welcome and meet like-minded, passionate…
Honouring Immigrant Women on IWD
There are many things that separate Anna Moo and Hana Assafiri. They hail from different places around the world, and they come from different generations in life. And yet their lives have converged in the most special of ways, something…
NETFA Forum 2017
The National Education Toolkit for FGM/C Awareness (NETFA) Project is in its third and final year and to celebrate, MCWH will be hosting a National Forum on FGM/C on 24th March 2017 at the Woodward Conference Centre in Melbourne. It…
AMES Annual Women's Camp 2016
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health’s Education Program was yet again facilitated in Mount Eliza, at the annual AMES Women’s Camp with 90 migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker women, who came to settle in Victoria from around the globe. Most of…
Forum summary report: What does the Royal Commission into Family Violence mean for Multicultural Communities?
MCWH hosted a forum on May 10th, 2016 titled: ‘What does the Royal Commission into Family Violence mean for Multicultural Communities?’ The forum aimed to facilitate discussion about the RCFV’s findings and recommendations specifically as they relate to CALD women Please…
NETFA Forum 2016
This month we had the good fortune of spending a day surrounded by a group of amazing women who know a great deal about women’s rights, health and female circumcision. On International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting,…
AMES Student Retreat 2015
This is a second year in a row that MCWH multilingual health education program was part of the annual AMES female students’ retreat in Mt Eliza YMCA campsite. Over 100 women – English language students from all over Victoria- gathered at…
ASPIRE Project: Presenting at the Family Violence Has No Boundaries Conference
Our work on the ASPIRE Project – Analysing Safety and Place in Immigrant and Refugee Experience– led us to co-host a session at the Family Violence Has No Boundaries Conference, held at Melbourne Law School. Our BHE educator Manasi presented with…
Workshop on intersectionality and the prevention of violence against women
On the 10th June 2015, MCWH held a training workshop aimed to introduce and explore ideas around intersectionality, power and privilege. Participants came from a diverse network of women’s health services across Victoria, some travelling from as far as the Grampians and…