This submission highlights key issues in sexual and reproductive health service access and equity as observed by Women's Health Victoria through engagement with service providers and with service seekers.
This submission highlights key issues in sexual and reproductive health service access and equity as observed by Women's Health Victoria through engagement with service providers and with service seekers.
The Victorian Women’s Health Services, with support and insight from GEN VIC and Birth for Humankind, welcome the opportunity to make a submission to the Senate Inquiry into Universal Access to Reproductive Healthcare.
Women’s Health Victoria (WHV) welcomed the opportunity to provide feedback to the Respect@Work consultation on remaining legislative recommendations in March 2022.
This submission welcomes the important inclusion of recovery from violence in the draft National Plan 2022-2032, and notes progress in relation to prevention over the previous decade. However, overall changes during this time in relation to the gendered drivers of violence against women and children have been minimal, and persistent or increasing prevalence rates are of significant concern.
Women’s Health Victoria welcomed the opportunity to provide feedback to the Medical Research Future Fund Australian Medical Research and Innovation Strategy and Priorities consultation in October 2021.
Women’s Health Victoria (WHV) welcomed the opportunity to provide feedback to the draft National Obesity Prevention Strategy in November 2021.
This submission largely focuses on the primary prevention of men’s violence against women in line with the focus and expertise of WHV.
WHV’s submission focuses on young women’s mental health, physical health, sexual and reproductive health and the prevention of violence against women, drawing on our areas of expertise and highlighting the importance of promoting gender equality to address poor health outcomes across all these areas.
This submission to the Productivity Submission, written by Gender Equity Victoria (GENVic), Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE) and the Gender Equity Accredited Training Project (WHV), specifically talks to issues relating to ‘options to ensure government investment in VET encourages increased participation in training by all Australians and is commensurate with the outcomes and benefits derived by individuals, business, industry, the local and national economy and society more generally.’
This submission, written by Gender Equity Victoria (GENVic), Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE) and the Gender Equity Accredited Training Project (WHV), makes recommendations drawing on a wealth of evidence that supports that this is not possible until inequity in our society and economy is addressed – specifically gender equity.
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Women's Health Victoria acknowledges and pays our respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land that our offices are situated on, the peoples of the Kulin Nation. As a statewide organisation, we also acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Victoria. We pay our respects to them, their cultures and their Elders past and present.
We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded and that we are beneficiaries of stolen land and dispossession, which began over 200 years ago and continues today.