Women Leading Change
About
Humanitarian Crisis Hub (now Diaspora Action Australia) Women Leading Change network brings diaspora leaders from South Sudanese, Sri Lankan, Hazara, Oromo, Ogaden, Bahai and Iranian communities together to share skills and create connections.
The network was launched after the Humanitarian Crisis Hub (now Diaspora Action Australia) hosted an event in Melbourne at the end of 2012, where a group of women community leaders spoke about activism, human rights, peace building and diaspora-led development projects in their countries of origin. Participants requested that it become a regular event. A similar event held in Sydney in September 2013 also resulted in the formation of a network.
Guest speakers
Women Leading Change events often feature guest speakers from diverse and interesting backgrounds, including:
- Isadora Quay and Alexandra Lamb, CARE
- Steph Cousins, Oxfam
- Zulaikha Rafiq, Afghan Women’s Educational Centre (AWEC)
- Agnes Cusack, Multicultural Media Exchange
- Carol Angir, ActionAid
- Manon van Zuijlen, International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA)
- Maria Vamvakinou, Federal Member for Calwell.
Upcoming events:
News & blogs
- How are you celebrating International Women’s Day? (26 Feb, 2014)
- One year of Women Leading Change (19 Dec, 2013)
- “Where is the Justice?”: Rosa Vasseghi speaks on the plight of Iran’s Baha’i community (17 Oct, 2013)
- Strength in numbers: Women Leading Change Forum, Sydney (17 Sep, 2013)
- Oxfam blog on Women Leading Change (12 Dec, 2012)
Annual Report story
- Women Lead Change (PDF, page 11)
Past events
- Women Leading Change Forum, Melbourne (17 May, 2014)
- International Women’s Day – Melbourne (1 Mar, 2014
- International Women’s Day – Sydney (1 Mar, 2014)
- Women Leading Change – Melbourne: Engaging the media and getting your message across (1 Feb, 2014)
- Women Leading Change Forum – Melbourne (7 Dec, 2013)
- Women Leading Change Forum – Sydney (7 Dec, 2013)
- Women Leading Change – Melbourne: Planning advocacy under the new government (7 Nov, 2013)
- Women Leading Change – Sydney: Planning advocacy under the new government (2 Nov, 2013)
- Women Leading Change – Melbourne: Advocacy Strategy Development (5 Oct, 2013)
- Women Leading Change – Melbourne: Conflict transformation and peace-building (1 Dec, 2012)
