For those members and guests who have purchased tickets: As of 11:45 Monday 28 June, this event will be going ahead. In accordance with the public health directives from ACT Health, masks will be required for all attendees. Please contact the Club on 6121 2199 if you have any questions or concerns.
Amid national reckoning, women are proudly demanding to be heard and to be safe—at home, in public, and at work. Yet for many women in Australia—migrant and refugee women, and women of colour—gender equality is only half the pathway to safety and security.
While, for the first time, misogyny is getting the deserved attention, racism is yet to be tackled as the single biggest threat to community safety and cohesion.
As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, there is a growing and pressing need to re-examine our framework for social cohesion.
How do we reinvent multiculturalism for the third modernity? What kind of Australia do we want to be? One where differences are weaponised to divide? Or where they are harmonised to unite?
Drawing on her personal story, Nyadol Nyuon—a trailblazer, human rights advocate and chair of Australia’s migrant and refugee women’s alliance—will reflect on intersectionality, identity and belonging in charting a roadmap for social cohesion.
She will launch the report of the very first comprehensive study of Australian migrant women – Migrant and Refugee Women in Australia: The Safety and Security. Jointly conducted by Harmony Alliance and Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre, it is among a handful of studies in the world to comprehensively focus on migrant and refugee women’s experiences with safety and security, victimisation, and their trust in communities and institutions.
Nyadol Nyuon is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and Chair of Harmony Alliance: Migrant and Refugee Women for Change. She was born in a refugee camp in Itang, Ethiopia, and raised in Kakuma Refugee camp, Kenya. In 2005, at the age of eighteen, she moved to Australia as a refugee. Since then, Nyadol has completed a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne. She previously worked as a commercial litigator with Arnold Bloch Leibler. Nyadol is a vocal advocate for, and a regular media commentator on, human rights, equality and non-discrimination.
