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

WoPAI Intervenes at Human Rights Council Session | Women’s Platform for Action International

In support of the Sex Based Violence Report by Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls Reem Alsalem, WoPAI attended the 59th HRC Session to speak.

Source: WoPAI Intervenes at Human Rights Council Session | Women’s Platform for Action International

UNSRVAW Reem Alsalem’s presentation of Sex Based Violence Report | Human Rights Council 59th session – YouTube

CCR Network Interactive Workshop- Hague Mothers Tickets, Wed 25 Jun 2025 at 15:00 | Eventbrite

Welcome to the CCR Network interactive workshop from Hague Mothers.

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980 was designed to ensure the quick and safe return of a child if they are taken across international borders by one parent without the other parent’s consent. However 75% of the parents brought before the courts are mothers, and many are fleeing domestic abuse, trying to return to safety in their home country with their child. Come join us to hear more about this and the support available through the Hague Explained.

For more information: Home – Hague Mothers and Hague Explained CIC | Non-profit Organisation in the UK

Source: CCR Network Interactive Workshop- Hague Mothers Tickets, Wed 25 Jun 2025 at 15:00 | Eventbrite

WDI Aus/NZ Webinars – Feminist Legal Clinic

Apologies to Australian signatories of the Women’s Declaration International (WDI) who may not have been receiving invitations to our monthly webinars due to a glitch in our systems. Hopefully you should have now received a communication which aims to resolve the problem. However, all the Aus/NZ webinars you may have missed over the past 6 months can be accessed at the link below and can be viewed by WDI signatories and others at any time.

Source: WDI Aus/NZ Webinars – Feminist Legal Clinic

The ‘dangerous’ Australian women whose art was dismissed, forgotten – and even set on fire

Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940, an expansive new exhibition co-presented by AGSA and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Some of the 50 featured artists are already well-known: the Archibald-winning face of Nora Heysen; the gentle cubism of Dorrit Black; Margaret Preston’s still life studies; and the vivid, stippled colours of Grace Cossington Smith.

But many, like Kong Sing, are being salvaged from obscurity. “That’s been the challenge of the whole project,” Freak says. “Especially these artists who were working internationally, trying to trace their movements, trying to find their works that sold overseas.

Dangerously Modern’s focus is deliberately blurry; Australian and New Zealand-born expatriates are placed alongside inbound migrants, reflecting a decoupling from a notion of national identity that resurgent – and male-led – art movements back home were trying to galvanise. Freak and her colleagues trace more subtle points of convergence and exchange: Kong Sing once shared a Sydney studio with Florence Rodway; oils by Hilda Rix Nicholas and Ethel Carrick respond to exoticised colours and markets of Tangier, Morocco and Kairouan, Tunisia; and Girl in the sunshine, by New Zealand-born Edith Collier, was painted in the Irish village of Bunmahon, as part of a 1915 summer class led by Margaret Preston.

For artists who bucked tradition, borders and convention, their often cool reception back home and subsequent omission from the Australian canon was structural, geographic and political.

The show’s title comes from Thea Proctor, who was amused to be regarded as “dangerously modern” upon her homecoming in 1926. Freak and her co-curators also point to the art historian Bernard Smith’s dismissive labelling of female expatriate artists as mere “messenger girls” in 1988.

Some works were literally too hot to handle; it’s hard to picture a stronger expression of patriarchal suppression than the day Collier arrived home to find her father had burned a series of her boundary-pushing nudes. (A rare survivor appears in Dangerously Modern, making its first Australian appearance.)

Source: The ‘dangerous’ Australian women whose art was dismissed, forgotten – and even set on fire

Labor women make history by overtaking men in cabinet. So is the job done? | The Conversation

For the first time in Australian history, there will be more women than men in federal cabinet.This comes more than 120 years after women were first allowed to stand for federal parliament, and decades after Labor established its gender quota strategy.

Taking into account the full caucus, women will comprise 56% of the Labor party room, a clear record.

Labor women now easily outnumber the men in both chambers: 54% in the House of Representatives and a likely 63% in the Senate, once results are finalised.

Anthony Albanese’s new cabinet – the very top of the decision making process – is made up of 12 women and 11 men.

By contrast, Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott could find space for only one woman – Julie Bishop – in his cabinet in 2013.

Women are critically underrepresented in the parliamentary Liberal and National parties. They make up just 28.5% of the former coalition across both chambers – a slight increase on the previous parliament.

However, women comprise just 21% of Liberal and National MPs in the lower house, a decline of three percentage points. This has sparked renewed calls from some conservative quarters to introduce quotas.

Sussan Ley has made history as the Liberal Party’s first female leader. However, there are already indications she has inherited a “glass cliff” position, given she was elevated after a catastrophic failure at the ballot box.

Further, having more women in parliament does not guarantee substantive representative or inclusive policy-making. While some research shows women tend to advocate on female issues, a higher number of women politicians does not automatically mean more feminist policy.

Of the 42 frontbenchers who make up the full ministry, 23 are men and 19 are women.

Source: Labor women make history by overtaking men in cabinet. So is the job done?

Women Create

May 30th – 31st, Central London

Women Create! Is the world’s first ever event platforming cancelled, censored and at risk female and feminist artists, art activists and creatives from across the political spectrum, and the world.

Source: Women Create

Women’s Parliament – A Women’s Bill of Rights – 4 March 2025 – YouTube

Press Release: Launch of WoPAI | Women’s Platform for Action International

Women’s Platform for Action International, WoPAI, is holding its global launch in New York on 10 March 2025 to coincide with the 69th Commission on the Status of Women and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action.

Source: Press Release: Launch of WoPAI | Women’s Platform for Action International