The WRAP Newsletter
The WRAP is MCWH's monthly newsletter and stands for Women's Research Advocacy & Policy.
Each month, we publish an in-depth article examining a current issue affecting migrant and refugee women and gender-diverse people in Australia. Drawing on our intersectional research lens, we unpack the systems and structures shaping these issues, offering insight, context and analysis to deepen understanding and inform action.
You can explore a selection of articles, or subscribe to receive The WRAP each month and stay informed on the issues that matter most.
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#HearMeToo: celebrating migrant women’s work to prevent violence
This year marks the sixth incarnation of the United Nation’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign, and the theme for 2018 is #HearMeToo. The focus of the campaign is to bring to the forefront the voices of women…
How to change the culture of sexual harrassment
The Australian Human Rights Commission found that an astonishing 85% of Australian women have experienced sexual harassment in their workplace at some point in their lives. So far from being a horrible but random occurrence, sexual harassment in Australian workplaces…
60 seconds with Hoa Pham
Award-winning writer, playwright, Peril founder and newest MCWH project officer! What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Stopping and smelling the flowers. What is the best thing that happened to you today? Hugging my children. If you were a…
WRAP #70: Multicultural Centre for Women's Health turned 40 in style!
We did it! Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health has turned 40 and we are feeling stronger and healthier than ever! After many months of planning and counting down the days, last Thursday MCWH celebrated 40 years of history at our…
Migrant women take centre stage
Not three years ago, our bilingual educators visited the Langham Hotel to run health education sessions with the many migrant women who work there behind the scenes and are essential to the hotel’s operation. Last week we made sure that…
As needed now as 40 years ago
Excerpted from MCWH Board Chair Dr. Tamara Kwarteng’s Gala speech “MCWH started in 1978 as a solution to a serious problem. Migrant women at the time did not have access to information and education about their contraceptive and other reproductive…
AGENCY: Latest reports, resources, campaigns, data and topical advocacy
Agency is a quarterly summary of the latest reports, fresh new resources, headline campaigns, essential data and topical advocacy from the Multicultural Centre for Women's Health.