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Documentary Australia

Women’s Voices initiative

Women’s Voices INITIATIVE OF Documentary Australia is a unique not-for-profit that supports powerful stories for social change.
Free To Shine

Girls’ Safety, Education and Agency

Girls' safety in rural Siem Reap have the right to safety, education and meaningful choices about their futures. Yet poverty, food insecurity, debt, limited services, gender discrimination, disability, family violence and unsafe migration pathways can restrict these rights. During financial...
The George Institute for Global Health

UNDER-RESEARCHED. UNDER-RECOGNISED. UNDER-FUNDED.

UNDER-RESEARCHED. UNDER-RECOGNISED. UNDER-FUNDED. The George Institute’s Global Women’s Health Program has a bold vision to improve the lifelong health, well being, safety and productivity of women and girls.
McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, a unit of Cancer Council Victoria

Reducing Gender Inequity in Cancer: Legal, Policy, and Leadership Solutions

Women are more likely than men to risk financial catastrophe due to cancer, disproportionately bear the burden of unpaid cancer caregiving (over 75% globally), and are underrepresented in oncology leadership. Systemic gender inequities across the entire cancer continuum are reinforced...
Juno

Housing Safety Project

The Housing Safety Project aims to prevent homelessness by supporting women, trans and gender diverse people and their children to access safe, stable and affordable housing earlier, before crisis occurs, while also reducing reliance on an overstretched crisis system.
Juno

EMPower Coaching Program

Juno is a support and advocacy organisation working across Melbourne’s North. We provide gender-informed services that support women, trans, gender diverse people and their children experiencing or recovering from the impacts of homelessness and housing stress, family violence and financial...
Human Rights Law Centre

Empowering women to speak up and improve human rights protections in Australia

Every person deserves to feel safe at work. But women are paying a heavy price if they speak up or blow the whistle to exposing wrongdoing in Australia. This is compounded by women on temporary visas, who previously faced having...
Central Tablelands and Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre

The A.V.A. Program (Advocacy, Voice, Access)

This project delivers specialist legal support to women who are staying at a residential rehabilitation service in Orange. Many women have experienced domestic and family violence and face complex legal challenges including family law, AVOs, child protection and victims compensation...
Justice and Equiity Centre

Homeless Person’s Legal Service (HPLS) - Womens Service

Research shows that most women in prison are victims-survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) and/or sexual violence which increases both the risk and effects of criminalisation and incarceration. Most victim-survivors of DFV and sexual assault face numerous concurrent legal,...
Birchtree Foundation Limited

Empowered Self Defence (ESD)

Birchtree Foundation’s Empowered Self Defence (ESD) program aims to prevent sexual violence, reduce re-victimisation, and increase confidence, agency, and safety for participants. We seek to equip individuals, particularly women and gender-diverse people, with the skills, strategies, and mindset to detect...
CARE Australia

CARE Australia: building self-reliant communities

CARE Australia’s RISE program in Ethiopia supports over 50,000 people with solar-powered water systems, women’s leadership, climate-smart livelihoods, and inclusive planning. It promotes gender equity, disability inclusion, and sustainable WASH outcomes in Farta and Dera. By integrating nutrition, financial literacy,...
UN Women Australia

Meri Safe Buses Program

The Meri Safe Bus initiative in Port Moresby gave women and children safe, reliable transport—reducing violence, improving access to work, school, and community life, and empowering female drivers. The service ended due to funding cuts. Help us raise $148,000 to...