Advocacy Success with St Vincent’s Healthcare Australia

ACRATH milestone advocacy success only possible with support from St Vincent’s Healthcare Australia staff and Sisters. We have had a win. With the help of the Sisters of Charity and many SVHA staff, a 17-year advocacy battle has resulted in the Federal Government’s Budget decision to offer victims and survivors of human trafficking the opportunity…

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Call to Address Root Causes

CEDAW (Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination of Against Women) has called on governments to pursue all appropriate means to eliminate trafficking in women and girls, highlighting the increasing use of social media to recruit trafficking victims during the COVID-19 pandemic. In its General Recommendation NO 38 CEDAW reports that women and girls still account…

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CEDAW

In 2005 Louise Cleary csb called together Australian academics and social justice advocates to prepare a submission to the Committee of CEDAW (Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women) at the United Nations in New York. Download a copy of the submission here. This submission was successful in framing several of…

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