YWCA Canberra is involved in a range of advocacy campaigns throughout the year, to ensure that women’s issues and voices are heard in the community, and by our leaders.
Our campaigns include advocacy to both the ACT and Federal Governments, activities on social media, and real world events.
As 2016 is an election year in the ACT, the focus of our advocacy this year is to call on the next ACT Government to prioritise gender equality, support for children and young people and community inclusion over the coming three years. Underpinned by our election platform, Every woman, every child, every day, our advocacy has involved direct engagement with all sides of politics, as well as promoting the voices of local women to learn their priorities.
In 2015, our key campaigns were the Respect NOW campaign, which advocated for respectful relationships programs to be funded in ACT schools to prevent violence against women, advocating for further action to address violence against women during the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence, and participating in Anti-Poverty Week.
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