A Biannual Newsletter Published by
Immigrant Women's Speakout Association of NSW

For information on articles please contact IWSA

phone: (02) 9635 8022   fax: (02) 9635 8176

Issue 16 
Summer 2007
WOMEN’S WHISPERING:
SEXUAL ASSAULT ISSUES AMONG CALD WOMEN

Inside:

• Sexual Violence in Refugee Communities
• Reality of Sexual Assault among CALD women
• Sexual Assault in Marriage
  SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS:
• Determination in Displacement:
  An immigrant woman’s reflection on trafficking of women and human rights
• Purdah of the Heart and the Eyes:
  An Examination of Purdah as an Institution in Pakistan

Issue 15 
Winter 2006
REVISITING CALD WOMEN’S ISSUES

Inside:

• Acid Attack (Violence) on Cambodian Women
• ‘Multiple Jeopardy’ of Korean Migrant Women
• Violence as Social Exclusion: CALD Women in Multicultural Australia
• WARM Factsheet 1:
  Women Still in Immigration Detention
• WARM Factsheet 2:
  Women Released from Immigration Detention
• WARM Issues Paper:
  Changes to the Domestic Violence Provision (DVP)

Issue 14 
Winter 2004
THE WOMEN AND FAMILIES FROM
CALD BACKGROUND ISSUE

Inside:

• Doing It Solo
• Life Behind Barbed-Wire
• DV and Its Impact on Children
• Child Care Choices
• Services for NESB Children, Families and Communities
• My Back Is Killing Me! What Can I Do?
• Supporting the Transition of Bilingual Children to Preschool
• An Update on the Families First Project
• Speakout News
  

Issue 13 
Summer 2004
THE WOMEN TRAFFICKING ISSUE

Inside:

• Trafficking in Women for Prostitution
• Trafficking, Gender and Human Rights
• Australia Can Do Better for Sex Slaves
• Trading Humans and Purple Roses
• The Surry Hills Slave Traders
• Children's Lives in Immigration Detention Centres
• Speakout AGM and Consultation
  

Issue 12 
Winter 2003
THE IMPACT OF TEMPORARY PROTECTION VISAS ON REFUGEE WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Inside:

• TPV-Misguided policy, shattered lives
• Finding a job under the TPV
• Overview of Special Benefit Recipients on TPV
• TPV holders and access to higher education
• Speakout Migrant and refugee women's pre-election forum - The Outcomes

Issue 11 
Winter 2002
THE ANTI-RACISM ISSUE

Inside:

• Imagining Refugees: Borders and Ideas of Nation
• Youth and Cultural Identity
• Hansonism and the Howard Government
• Internment, Surveillance and Incarceration
• Update on Temporary Protection Visa
• The We Are All Boat People Campaign

Issue 10 
Summer 2001
Special Edition
EMPLOYMENT & IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE WOMEN

Inside:

• A profile of Immigrant & Refugee Women at work in Australia
• Diversity Management
• Korean Women in and out of the workforce
• Illegal Workers
• The Secret of Succes

Issue 9   
Winter 2001
REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS
what is Australia's responsibility?

• Community responses to the Tampa crisis
• Refugee women in detention
• Asylum seekers in the community
• Protection visas and the law
• Testimonials from women detainees
• Domestic violence and asylum
• Refugee women around the world
• Racialised Punishment in Australia

Issue 8   
Autumn 2001
Cover: Poster for Stop Domestic Violence Day 26th April

• Migrant Women trapped in Violence
• Women, Migration and Domestic Violence
• Fair Wear
• Refugees in Australia
• Women, Racism, the United Nations & Community Development
• Living from a Suitcase comes to Holroyd

Issue 7   
Spring 2000
Welfare Reform
plus

• Temporary Protection Visas
• Women in Cuba
• Campaign for Legal Aid for Women and Children in Family Law
• Australian Mandatory Detention Policy for Asylum Seekers

Issue 6   
Summer 2000
Cover: Speakout Rebels at IWD March

• 'Living from a Suitcase' Exhibition
• Women and Abortion
• Information Technology Project
• Elsie Women’s Refuge Housing Working Party
• The Future of the Specialist Migrant Placement Officer Program
• Property and Family Law: Options for Change Discussion Paper
• Summary of Speakout’s Submission to the Attorney General’s Department: Issues Affecting Migrants on the 2 Year Waiting Period
• Parliamentary Watch: Green Paper on Welfare Dependency
  

Issue 5
Winter 1999
Celebrating International Women's Day 1999
Special liftout section:
Return to Women's Cafe 1999

• Forum on Programs for Perpetrators
• Report on Garment Outworkers
• STOP Domestic Violence Day
• Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA) Update

Issue 4
Autumn 1999
Living without violence: A Visual Art Exhibition by Women Of Western Sydney

• New Government Initiatives
• Featuring our Members: NSW Working Women's Centre
• Chinese Radio Segments
• Leadership Program

Issue 3
Summer 1998
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 50th Anniversary

• Information Technology
• NESB Women and the Private Rental Market
• Featuring our Members: Vietnamese Women's Association
• Indonesian Women
• Conference Report Back: Partnerships, Prevention & Rural Action
• Conference Report Back: 2nd National DV, Children and Young People

Issue 2
Spring 1998
Untiltled

• Women's Policy Position in NSW
• Outcomes: Speakouts Planning Day
• 'Womens Cafe'
• Abuse and Elderly Womens Project
• Refugee Women Speakout
• Perpetrator Programs? Speakout's Position
• Khmer Women
• Policing and Domestic Violence for NESB Women
• Launch of the Legal Information Project

Issue 1
Winter 1998

• AGM Update
• New Management Committee
• New Employment Market
• Jumping Boulders
• Sudanese Women's Group
  

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