Today marks Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation Day. The Australian Government has taken this opportunity to announce funding of more than $265,000 for MCWH to deliver the National Education Toolkit for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Awareness (NETFA) project…
Abortion stigma: shame on you
Safe and legal access to abortion, like clean drinking water and poverty, is often thought about in ‘third world’ terms. Australia is, after all, the ‘lucky country’, with a not-perfect, but nevertheless top class public health system, right? As we…
Media Release: Sharing Our Strengths National Symposium on Best Practice Approaches to the Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
There is no single approach to eliminate female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), but there are many approaches that do work best to end the practice. This is the message at the core of the ‘Sharing Our Strengths’ symposium being held today.…
Redefining Sensational
Have you ever read a media article about female genital cutting and cringed at the way the article was written? You know, you get that ‘Oh no, they haven’t used the word “primitive” and “backward” in the same sentence again…
Research Project: Contraceptive Technologies and Reproductive Choice Among Immigrant Women
Last week researchers from Monash University conducted an interview training workshop with a group of MCWH bilingual health educators. Our bilingual health educators were trained to conduct research interviews for the Contraceptive Technologies and Reproductive Choice Among Immigrant Women Project. The research will…
Our Voices: Filling the Gaps FGM Spokesperson Project
This week MCWH was honoured to welcome African Women Australia (AWAU) to our Melbourne training room to conduct a component of their national FGM Spokesperson Project. Juliana Nkrumah and Paula Abood worked together with 7 Melbourne-based African women to frame…
A model for FGM/C Community Education in Victoria
The Victorian FGM/C program, the Family and Reproductive Rights Education Program (FARREP), is under review. The aim of the review is to address a range of changes and challenges that have been identified over the 13 years of the program’s…
Media Release: Voices of Change-Marking International Zero Tolerance Day to Female Genital Mutilation
Women from countries where female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is practiced are the best agents to put an end to the harmful practice. This is the message at the core of the ‘Voices of Change’ event being held today to mark…
FARREP Statewide Planning Meeting
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health was pleased to host the Family and Reproductive Rights Education Program (FARREP) statewide planning meeting last week. Funded by the Victorian Department of Health, FARREP is the Victorian program that works with communities that are…
Media Release: International seminar highlights invisibility of abortion as a federal election issue
Variation in abortion law among the states is not the only issue at stake for women in Australia. Today MCWH will host a visit by Dr Anu Kumar, Executive Vice-President of Ipas, a global nongovernment organisation dedicated to ending preventable…