Sexual and Reproductive Rights for People with Disability

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Webinar: Sexual and Reproductive Rights for People with Disability

Supporting each other, to support ourselves

The webinar will cover sexual and reproductive rights and how you can become your own self-advocate. We invite women, girls, and non-binary people with disability in Australia to come along and hear the experience of our speakers, people with disability, advocating for their own sexual and/ or reproductive rights. There will also be an opportunity for Q & A at the end of the webinar.

Auslan and captions will be available.

• When: Tuesday 13 December
• Time: 12 pm -1:30 pm (AEDT)
• Where: Online (Register to receive the link).

Key Speakers: 

Rosemary Kayess: 

Rosemary Kayess is an internationally recognised and well-respected human rights lawyer in the area of disability. She is the current Chairperson of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Rosemary teaches international human rights law at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. Rosemary was a designated expert on the Australian Government delegation to the United Nations negotiations for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and facilitated the drafting of Article 24 on the Right to Education.

[Image: A blue and purple background. A picture of Rosemary is in the middle, she has short blonde hair, and is smiling. She is wearing a black blazer with a white shirt. Below, text says "Rosemary Kayess" and "Sexual and Reproductive Rights for People with Disability" The WWDA logo is below.] 

Karin Swift: 

Karin Swift has had an extensive career in the disability, advocacy and social policy space where she is committed to people with disability living valued lives in the community. Karin is a past President of Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) and has an extensive background in governance roles for other non-government organisations (NGOs). Karin has represented the Australian Government and WWDA at the Commission on the Status of Women 57 (CSW 57) held at the United Nations, New York, providing high level, strategic advice to on women with disability and violence and presenting at various side events. Karin has also led training alongside the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and been a keynote speaker for WWDA in Indonesia and South Korea on gender and disability and the elimination of violence.

Karin has previously worked at Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN) in various roles and provided strategic high-level advice and analysis on many contemporary disability issues and other social policies including: human rights, gender issues, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), the Disability Royal Commission, housing, transport, welfare reform and employment.

Karin currently works as an independent consultant providing strategic high level advice, policy analysis and giving presentations to a diverse range of audiences on a range of key disability social policy issues.

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Is Hay (they/them): 

Is Hay (they/them) is a disabled, queer, trans, mad, autistic young person living, working and resting on stolen Wurundjeri Woiwurrung land. They are passionate about taking down institutions of oppression and ableism, and forcing systems to change, rather than waiting and hoping they will. They have 2 cats, a blue-tongued lizard, and, give or take, 100 plants, all of whom are revolutionaries.

[Image: A blue and purple background. A picture of Is Hay in the middle, they have short blue hair, and is smiling. They are wearing glasses and a black and white striped top. Below, the text says "Is Hey" and "Sexual and Reproductive Rights for People with Disability" The WWDA logo is below]

Kelly Cox: 

Kelly works with other disabled people to affect change around disability and human rights issues. This has included better provision of services within the NDIS, lobbying for a Royal Commission and a wide range of other local, national and international issues. As a disabled woman Kelly has first hand understanding and lived experience of issues affecting disabled people. She has been actively involved in representing the rights of disabled people both nationally and internationally and is a contributing member of the disability rights movement in Australia. 

She is passionate about working to uphold the rights of all disabled people to ensure they are able to live the life they want. With specific interests in natural disaster recovery, violence prevention and intersectional issues and the way these further marginalise and disadvantage people with disability.

She believes that we should make sure all disabled people have a voice, especially people who come from exceptionally marginalised backgrounds.

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Find out more about WWDA!

Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA)

National Award-winning Disabled Peoples Organisation (DPO) for women, girls and non-binary people with disability in Australia.

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