Category: Events

Silences, Stories, Scripts: Transcultural Perspectives on Mothers and Daughters in Literature – Centre for Comparative Literature

24–25 June 2026 Online

Programme (will be published in April)

Abstracts and Biographies (will be published in April)

Register to attend (registrations will open in April)

The conference reflects on mother-daughter relationships across literary history, with particular attention to transcultural, comparative, and cross-period perspectives. Spanning the medieval to the contemporary, the event asks how maternal and filial female bonds are imagined as forms of kinship, authority, and belonging, and how those bonds register in generic and aesthetic terms.

Adrienne Rich described ‘the loss of the daughter to the mother, the mother to the daughter’ as ‘the essential female tragedy.’ Rather than treating this loss as timeless, the conference approaches it as historically and culturally situated. Medieval and early modern texts often render maternal figures marginal, symbolic, or silent; modern and contemporary writing, particularly in immigrant and diasporic contexts, often stages the mother-daughter bond as a pressured relation, marked by conflicting expectations and uneven forms of inheritance. A comparative frame makes it possible to trace the evolution of daughterhood, maternal authority, and intergenerational attachment through shifting regimes of gender, labour, lineage, and social legitimacy.

The conference is especially interested in the conceptual triad named in its title – silence, story, script – as a way of reading mother-daughter relations.

The conference is organised by Stephanie Ng (Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London), Isabella Clarke (University of Oxford) and Lucia Boldrini (CCL).

The conference is free to attend.

Source: Silences, Stories, Scripts: Transcultural Perspectives on Mothers and Daughters in Literature – Centre for Comparative Literature

WOMEN WALK FOR PEACE

Peace lovers will gather on Gadigal Land and walk together.

You are invited to join a multicultural, non-political walk in solidarity with women around the world who are calling for peace, justice for all, dignity, social cohesion and the protection of every child’s future.

Your presence matters. Your steps matter. Our shared future matters.

In the midst of unrest, lets create a movement – Please share and register for event updates.

This walk is organised by community members united in their commitment to peace, unity, social cohesion and dignity for all. It is independent and not affiliated with any political party or religion.

Let’s walk together in solidarity for peace

WEAR WHITE

  • NO FLAGS
  • NO PLACARDS
  • NO SLOGANS
  • NO POLITICAL CLOTHING

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Source: WALK FOR PEACE

RaffleTix | IWD 2026 Raffle

We are raising money to bring together our members and supporters in a national conference for International Women’s Day 2026, where they can exchange news and views, network and plan, and learn from each other. An exciting feature of this year’s conference is the participation of award-winning Scottish feminist performance poet Jenny Lindsay, author of the book Hounded (Polity Press). Our fundraising will help pay for her visit and other costs associated with organising the conference.

Source: RaffleTix | IWD 2026 Raffle

Uganda takes over presidency of UN Women Executive Board for 2026 | Nile Post

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Uganda takes over presidency of UN Women Executive Board for 2026

Uganda has assumed the presidency of the United Nations (UN) Women Executive Board for 2026, a move seen as a recognition of the country’s progress in promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls.

Uganda takes over from Sweden, whose presidency for 2025 was held by Ms. Nicola Clase, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations.

Accordingly, Ambassador of Uganda to the UN, Adonia Ayebare was represented at the handover by Minister Counsellor Celia Nabeta, will lead the board this year.

The United Nations General Assembly, through Resolution 64/289, established UN Women as the UN entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, bringing together the organisation’s activities across the UN system from 1 January 2011.

The General Assembly also created the UN Women Executive Board as the governing body to provide intergovernmental support and supervision of its operational activities.

Source: Uganda takes over presidency of UN Women Executive Board for 2026

Accountability, not re-interpretation: Why we questioned the Sex Discrimination Commissioner – Affiliation of Australian Women’s Advocacy Alliances

At the National Press Club on Wednesday, The Women’s Advocate put a direct question to the Sex Discrimination Commissioner about her powers and obligations under the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 and why women advocating for women’s sex-based protections and rights have not been properly consulted on the development of key sex and gender policies in Australia.

This is not a campaign against others’ rights: It is advocacy for our own. And it is simply to insist that, where rights are in conflict – for example, in sport or in prisons or change rooms – then those conflicts must be addressed openly and mediated on the basis of proportionality, rather than allowing women’s rights to be quietly displaced and overridden by administrative re-definition. This is the role of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner.

We welcome the opportunity to sit down with the Commissioner and further explain where we believe women have not been adequately consulted. A transcript of our exchange with the Commissioner is provided below.

Source: Accountability, not re-interpretation: Why we questioned the Sex Discrimination Commissioner – Affiliation of Australian Women’s Advocacy Alliances

Uprooting Male Domination Online Book Launch with Julia Long Tickets | TryBooking Australia

Join us as Julia Long launches the new book by Sheila Jeffreys, UPROOTING MALE DOMINATION: DISPATCHES FROM THE SEX WARS.

This book examines the system of male domination and how radical feminists have resisted it, outlining both well-known and often ignored forms of oppression. Jeffreys challenges the idea that ‘equality’ is enough, calling instead for radical transformation. She critiques the men’s sexual rights movement & gender ideology, warning of their threat to feminist gains, and develops a lesbian feminist critique of queer politics. This is a book for women resisting exploitation & fighting for liberation.

Julia Long is a lesbian feminist who has worked as a teacher, academic, researcher & charity sector manager. Her activism focuses on male violence against women, particularly pornography, the sex industry & transgenderism. Sheila Jeffreys is a lesbian feminist, activist & author of works on women’s rights.

Source: Uprooting Male Domination Online Book Launch with Julia Long Tickets | TryBooking Australia

Anti-Discrimination Act review  | NSW Law Reform Commission

The Attorney General has asked the Law Reform Commission to review the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW).

Update: consultation paper released

We’ve released the first consultation paper (PDF, 2.2 MB) in our review of the ADA. This paper focuses on the conduct prohibited by the ADA, including discrimination, vilification, sexual harassment and victimisation.

We ask if any of these aspects of the ADA should change and, if so, how?

We’ve also released:

  • A Community Summary (PDF, 407.1 KB) of the consultation paper. This summarises the key issues, concerns and some ideas for reform.
  • An Easy Read consultation paper (PDF, 3.9 MB). This contains simple language and pictures to help make information easier to understand. It also asks basic questions about the ADA.

Word versions are available under key documents, below.

How to have your say

We’d like to hear your views about the ADA. You can:

The due date is 15 August 2025.

Source: Anti-Discrimination Act review

WoPAI Makes Submission to CSW | Women’s Platform for Action International

Women’s Platform for Action International (WoPAI) has submitted a communication under the CSW Communications Procedures regarding violations of the human rights of women in six member states: the United States of America, Italy, Australia, Colombia, India and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Six separate letters, each detailing individual complaints concerning specific violations or policies in these countries, outline the nature of the alleged violations, the rights affected and relevant supporting information.

We expect the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) communication procedures to review our complaints and communicate them to the states concerned.

You can view and download the letters at link below:

Source: WoPAI Makes Submission to CSW | Women’s Platform for Action International

Australian feminists unite for UN shadow report: Why women’s voices matter in international human rights – Affiliation of Australian Women’s Advocacy Alliances

Our coalition of independent feminist organisations has submitted its shadow report to the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of Australia’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

Legal reforms in Australia have left women in a state of deep uncertainty about our rights. The law’s failure to clarify the definition of ‘woman’ (thanks to the widespread adoption of sex self-identification) has created confusion and forced women to bear the cost of litigation merely to test the boundaries of our rights in practice.

Legal ambiguity is undermining essential spaces and services for women, especially those escaping violence or seeking trauma support. The erosion of clear data collection by sex further hampers our ability to address male violence or develop evidence-based policy. We are calling for urgent government action to reinstate sex-disaggregated data and to safeguard special measures intended to benefit women, as clearly mandated by international law.

Read the full report, below.

Source: Australian feminists unite for UN shadow report: Why women’s voices matter in international human rights – Affiliation of Australian Women’s Advocacy Alliances

Buy tickets – Building International Terf Sisterhood – Euston, London

WDI International Conference 26-27 July 2025 London, UK

Building International Terf Sisterhood &

End Sex Falsification and Restore Safeguarding – UK Campaign

WDI invite you to a women only, hybrid international conference at the Wesley Hotel (gone are the days when we had to keep the location secret) near Euston and Kings Cross, London, UK. The spread of gender identity politics has been swift and wide reaching. Women’s Declaration International has been working for seven years to defend women’s sex based rights against this politics and has a declaration signed by 547 organizations and nearly 40,000 individuals from 160 countries. This conference will be a wonderful time to get together and will help us share information about how to defend women’s rights. The conference theme will be our great collective success building International Terf Sisterhood but as always we will be focussing on all the issues raised in the Declaration. If you can’t attend in person you can join us online.

Source: Buy tickets – Building International Terf Sisterhood – Euston