Yannick Glemarec, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme, UN Women; Miwa Kato, Regional Representative, UN Women Asia and the Pacific; and Aleta Miller, Representative, UN Women
10 October 2017 - 5:30pm
In a free Canberra public lecture, Virginia Haussegger, Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, will facilitate a conversation with UN Women leaders about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and progress underway towards achieving SDG 5 – gender equality and women’s empowerment – by 2030.
The focus of this paper is women’s expulsion from religious community. Professor Sunder Rajan takes for her examination three literary texts, twentieth-century works of (quasi-historical) fiction written in southern India: A.
Gillian Triggs, who was until recently the President of the Commission, will be talking about the resulting ‘Change the Course’ report which was published on 1 August 2017.
Janelle Weissma (UN Women National Committee Australia); Professor Margaret Alston (Monash University); Dr Yolande Strengers (RMIT); : Associate Professor Jo Lindsay (Monash University)
17 August 2017 - 12:00pm
This panel of experts examines the importance of gender, globally, nationally and locally, as we develop social and political structures to achieve long term sustainability. The panellists interrogate the critical role of gender interventions as personal, communal and global.
"I am a feminist because I know that having so much joy and satisfaction and at home and at work, it would be completely unacceptable to say to other women, the young women I meet, so full of potential, "you're on your own". Book now for the EMILY's List 2017 Oration with guest speaker Deputy ALP
Professor Nicholson will explore the applicability of Bayesian networks and describe some of the challenges in building these models and having them adopted by decision makers.
Dr Anne Aly MP; Louise Taylor, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Legal AID ACT
24 March 2017 - 6:00pm
Dr Anne Aly MP will present a keynote address on the topic of "how radical western feminism has been counterproductive for the rights of minority women".
This year's Pamela Denoon Lecture titled 'The importance of mothers and families in lowering the indigenous incarceration rate' will be delivered by Josephine Cashman.
