The HIV Women’s Project at Women’s Health Statewide, CYWHS, and PEACE (Multicultural HIV and Hepatitis service at Relationships Australia) will co-host a lunch to ‘Celebrate and Honour Women’ on World AIDS Day 2009.
Each year on World AIDS day (http://www.acsa.org.au/aaw.html), the HIV Women’s Project hold an event that highlights the issues for women who live with HIV.
This year’s event is an opportunity for women from diverse cultures to open up conversations between communities.
The lunch will be held 12.30 – 2.30pm, Tuesday 1 December 2009 at Relationships Australia (SA), 49a Orsmond Street, Hindmarsh. Please RSVP for catering purposes, to the HIV Women’s Project on 8239 9600.
Look out for the red ribbons which will be sold throughout Adelaide on Friday 27 November, to support South Australian’s living with HIV.
Categories: HIV / AIDS
Tagged: World AIDS Day
MY TEHRAN FOR SALE
SAWA-Australia film night fundraiser + Q&A session with director Granaz Moussavi
Filmed underground entirely on location in Tehran and nominated for this year’s IF Independent Spirit Award, MY TEHRAN FOR SALE centres on Marzieh, a young female actress living in Tehran. When authorities ban her theatre work, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. In revealing how young Iranian people live behind closed doors, the film brings to the screen never before seen images of modern urban Iran.
The director of the film is Granaz Moussavi, one of Iran’s most celebrated contemporary female poets. Granaz grew up in Tehran and moved to Adelaide in 1997 with her family to study filmmaking at Flinders University. MY TEHRAN FOR SALE is Granaz’s feature film debut and is based on her personal experience of living and writing in Tehran as well as her experiences working with asylum seekers as a social worker at South Australia’s Woomera Detention Centre.
To view the trailer visit: www.cyanfilms.com.au
TRAK CINEMAS 375 GREENHILL RD TOORAK GARDENS
Monday 23rd Nov at 6:45pm. Tickets available from 5:30pm. Adults $15 Concession $12
Q&A session with writer/director Granaz Moussavi following the screening of the film.
RSVP to adelaide@sawa-australia.org
SAWA-Australia, the Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan, is dedicated to raising funds for human rights, education, nutrition, health, safety, and improving the self-esteem of Afghanistan’s women and children, including those who live as refugees in Pakistan.
www.sawa-australia.org
Categories: Iranian Artists · Women in Iran
Tagged: Granaz Moussavi, SAWA
A YWCA of Adelaide Public Forum
Keynote speaker Melinda Takard Reist is a Canberra based author, commentator and advocate of appearing in Adelaide to launch her new book. Getting Real. Melinda will speak about girls growing up in a toxic, sexualised environment that harms girls’ health and threatens their wellbeing.
The forum will include a panel discussion featuring Melinda, Rita Princi – child, adolescent and Family Psychologist, and Anne Bunning – International Gender Specialist and Chief Executive YWCA of Adelaide.
5.45pm for a 6.00pm start
Thursday 22 October 2009
Cynthia Poulton Hall (St Peter’s Cathedral)
RSVP 8227 0155 or Jo.DeSilva@ywca.com.au
Places limited so rsvp early to avoid disappointment
Categories: Uncategorized
Professor Angela Davis, activist and feminist academic from the University of California, is in Australia at the moment to speak at a conference about women and prisons. The conference, in Brisbane from 2nd-4th September is by Sisters Inside Inc. and called “Is Prison Obsolete“ (bearing the same title as one of Angela Davis’s own books). On 2nd September she spoke about this topic on Radio National’s program, ‘Life Matters’ and this can be heard by podcast through their website for a few months after the program.
Books that our library holds by Angela Davis are:
Women, Race and Class (1982)
Angela Davis : an Autobiography (1975)
The Black Women’s Role in the Community of Slaves (1971)
If they come in the morning : Voices of Resistance (1971)
-Jo
Categories: Podcasts · Women and Prison
Tagged: Angela Davis, Radio national - Life Matters
Back in march, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan signed and passed the Shia Family Planning Law. (Under the Afghan constitution, Shias can have family law separate from the Sunni majority). The Shia Family Planning law follows traditional Shia jurisprudence which sanctions marital rape and places Taliban-era restrictions on the women. Following international outrage, the law was amended and in July resigned, although it has not yet been ratified by parliament. The impact of this law if passed as well as other issues facing Afghan women today, is discussed by Janine di Giovanni in an article of July 24th in the Guardian.
Categories: Afghanistan · Afghanistan Family Planning Law · International Women's Issues · Women in Afghanistan
Tagged: Afghanistan
The Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2008 was passed in the South Australian Parliament July 14th 2009 and will come into effect at a date to be fixed. Among the amendments is one that makes it illegal to refuse to sell goods and services, including education, to a breastfeeding mother. Another amendment protects against discrimination on the grounds of sexuality, although religious schools are exempt. Anti-discrimination on the basis of religious dress such as burqas and head scarves is also included as well as a broadening of the scope of the sexual harassment laws.
-Jo
Categories: Equal Opportunity · South Australian Government Legislation
Tagged: Anti-discrimination, breastfeeding, Equal Opportunity, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality
In case you missed it, on the 24th June 2009 Nicola Roxon (Federal Minister for Health and Ageing) introduced legislation that as part of the government’s maternity reform package includes a new government supported professional indemnity scheme for eligible midwives. This they say is one of the steps towards removing existing barriers to the provision of care, leading to better access and services for the community. ‘Homebirth Australia’ however, believes that as the insurance scheme only includes midwives in a clinical setting, it will have the effect of outlawing private practice midwives and deny access to homebirth to most women.
-Jo
Categories: Federal Minister for health and Ageing · Maternity
Tagged: Homebirth, Midwives
