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The WRAP: International Women's Day Edition

International Women’s Day! March 8 is a special day for women all over the world. It’s a day to celebrate women in all their political, cultural, generational, spiritual, physical, and economic variety which is quite a lot of celebrating,…

Position Paper on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM/C, and an important opportunity for us all to affirm our commitment to improving the rights, safety and health of women and girls around the globe. To mark the day,…

The WRAP #6 : FGM/C, Housing Hope and 60 seconds with Azam Naghavi

Happy New Year If you’re already struggling to stick to your new year’s resolutions as the first month of 2013 draws to a close: the good news is there are another eleven months to keep on trying. There’s always a…

What we can achieve in one generation

This 6th February marks a decade since the then First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Stella Obasanjo officially declared the date as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). Five years later in 2008, the UN Population…

When a house is a home

All the talk of the gender salary gap and whether or not you can you live on $32 a day as a sole-parent could be enough to make you despair (who would have thought there would be gender-gap deniers, and…

60 seconds with Azam Naghavi

PhD Scholar and international student If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Being a teacher. I was a teacher and a counsellor and when I go back to Iran, I’ll be teaching at university.…

Common Threads Report and Best Practice Guide Launched by Maria Vamvakinou

On 4 December the Federal Member for Calwell, Maria Vamvakinou MP, launched the MCWH Common Threads Report and Best Practice Guide in Melbourne. Vamvakinou launched the publications on behalf of the Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek, and spoke passionately about…