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During her two terms Prof Davis held portfolios including Administration of Justice and Gender and Women and was the focal point for UN Women and UN AIDS. [8] Megan was the Rapporteur of the UN Expert Group Meeting on an Optional Protocol to the UNDRIP as well as the author of a UNPFII study on a supervisory mechanism for UNDRIP (2014). [9]
Grace Vale in Melbourne c. 1894. Grace Vale (1860–1933) was a pioneer Australian female doctor and suffragist who devoted much of her career to improvement of health services for women and children in Victoria and New South Wales in the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially in rural areas.
Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote (after New Zealand in 1893) and the first to give women the right to be elected to a national parliament. [1] The Australian state of South Australia , then a British colony, was the first parliament in the world to grant some women full suffrage rights. [ 2 ]
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, 1928 CWA group meeting in Emerald, 1939 Country Women's Association of New South Wales meeting, ca. 1940 Cootamundra Albert Park CWA Monument The Country Women's Association ( CWA) is a women's organisation in Australia, which seeks to advance interests of women, families, and communities in ...
The Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) is a feminist, non-profit, self-funded, non-party political, lobby group founded in 1972 during the height of second-wave feminism in Australia. [1] WEL's mission is to create a society where women's participation and potential are unrestricted, acknowledged and respected and where women and men share equally ...
The support for the women’s national team in Australia also contrasts with the backlash this year against the top-ranked U.S. team, which was criticized by some back home after a Round-of-16 loss.
The League also supported the universal voting rights advocated by the utopian socialist settlement New Australia which was set up in Paraguay in 1893. [12] Women were finally granted the right to vote in New South Wales in 1902. [13] In 1902 the New South Wales Womanhood Suffrage League redefined itself as the Women's Political Educational ...
The meeting resolved to hold a conference as soon as there were sufficient representatives to attend. [4] The objectives of the association were broad but included some specific items: [5] 1. To improve welfare and conditions of women and children in the country 2. To draw together all women, girls, and children in Country Districts. 3.