Our community, our rights: Empowering refugee women through human rights education

7/30/2019 Our community, our rights: Empowering refugee women through human rights education

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Our Community, Our Rights: empoweringrefugee women through human rightseducation


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About Womens Health West

Health Promotion

Family Violence Service

Our approach

Social model of health

Gender equity, health promotion and community

development

Our Community, Our Rightsur Community, Our Rights


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Background and

development

Why do we need a projectcentred on human rights,

advocacy and civic

participation?

Our Community, Our Rights

Women need to know their rights so they can bring about change.

Rumia Abbas, Ethiopian Community Leader, 2011


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Examples of heath and human rights linkages


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If we know our rights, we will have

confidence; when we dont know our rights

we feel scared and stressed.


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To make progress on the social determinants of health for

refugee and migrant women:

Build understanding of human rights;

Enable women to undertake advocacy around their

rights; and

Enable participation in community life.



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Goal:To deliver advocacy training within a human rightsframework to enable women to participate in civil society and

to facilitate change.



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Our approach:

Gender equity

Community development



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Background and development

Expert Advisory Group

Choosing the population group

Community Consultations

Funding applications



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Designing the model:

Series of capacity-building

workshops;

Support for women to implement

their own advocacy projects.



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Evaluation

Human rights

Advocacy

Civic participation

Participant projects

Evidence base

Partnerships



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Workshops

Introduction to human rights

Racism and discrimination

Health

Employment

Education

Violence against women Tenancy and consumer issues

Advocacy and project planning



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Project Planning


A human rights-based approach to

addressing the social determinants ofhealth means supporting the collective

action of disadvantaged groups to

analyse, resist and change social

structures and policies, assert their

shared power and alter socialhierarchies towards greater equity.

(WHO, 2002)


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Project Planning

Human rights issue important to

your community Providing support andfostering

independence

Grants process



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Project Planning

Hope for a New Beginning



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Stories of change


It gave me the confidence to change issues in this countrythrough knowledge of how the law and our rights work, especially

because I come from a country where people dont have rights


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Most Significant

Change stories:

findings fromiteration one



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Where to now?

Continue evaluation

Continue workshops

Support women in

development of projects

Identify 2014 community



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Questions?

Contact:

Shifrah Blustein

Health Promotion Worker

Women's Health West

Phone: (03) 9689 9588

Email: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

Our community, our rights: Empowering refugee women through human rights education

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