The Liberian Australian Service Foundation (in collaboration with the African Communities Council of SA, the Middle Eastern Communities Council of SA and the Australian Migrant Resource Centre), November 2016 “WALK AGAINST DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE” This Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 10:30 am From Light Square to Parliament House on North Tce, Adelaide LAS Foundation and the...
Meet the Mob: Matty Morgan
ABC Newcastle, 18 January, 2016 1:10PM AEDT Indigenous language, gay rights, and social media – at 26 Gamilaroi man Matty Morgan is packing a lot into life. He is a young Aboriginal man who’s not afraid to take the lead. Hosted by Jill Emberson, 1233 ABC Newcastle Mornings presenter, Meet the Mob is a weekly profile of Aboriginal people in the Hunter region of New South Wales. Read...
Mother, midwife and sheikh guilty in Australia’s first genital mutilation trial
Sydney Morning Herald, November 12, 2015 – 1:53PM A retired nurse and the mother of two young girls have each been found guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation in Australia’s first prosecution of an FGM case. A sheikh, Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri, was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact. All three were members of the Dawoodi Bohra Shia Muslim community Read more from...
Conversations with CALD women on violence against women and their children
Hearing her voice: Report from the kitchen table conversations with culturally and linguistically diverse women on violence against women and their children Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Social Services) 2015 From 24 October 2014 to 12 March 2015, CALD women leaders hosted 29 kitchen table conversations throughout Australia with women from more than 40 ethnic and cultural backgrounds...