Our Community, Our Rights: empowering

refugee women through human rights

education

About Womens Health West
Health Promotion
Family Violence Service
Our approach
Social model of health
Gender equity, health promotion and community
development
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Background and
development
Why do we need a project
centred on human right,
advocacy and civic
participation!
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Women need to know their rights so they can bring about change.
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Goal: 2o deliver advocacy training within a human right
framewor, to ena$le women to participate in civil ociety and
to facilitate change.
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Our approach:

Gender equity

&ommunity development
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Background and development

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Designing the model:

Serie of capacity6$uilding
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Support for women to implement

their own advocacy project.
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Evaluation
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Proect Planning

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Proect Planning

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$ontact:
!hi"rah Blustein
Health Promotion Wor,er
Women> Health Wet
Phone3 7)?9 @AB@ @CBB
%mail3 hifrahDwhwet.org.au

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