Events

Women from migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds can encounter significant challenges when seeking a safe and stable home in Australia. Some women experience family violence, exploitation, forced marriage and homelessness. These traumatic experiences impact on physical and mental health, wellbeing and hope for the future.

At the Home Truths webinar, we discuss the challenges and barriers women face and the effective solutions and interventions that enable women to achieve independence and escape cycles of violence, exploitation and homelessness.

Watch the webinar below:

Guest speakers:

• Cecilie Kern, Mercy International Association, NGO Representative to the UN,  Chair NGO Committee on Migration. Cecilie speaks about the state of affairs of migration and homelessness issues at the United Nations and Mercy advocacy efforts.
• Dr. Jessie Hohmann, Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney and Right to Housing expert.
• Maeve Brown, CEO of Western Sydney Migrant Resource Centre in conversation with:
• Magdalene Konneh, Lived Experience Expert and SGBV Specialist Caseworker, JRS.
• Helena Hassani, Modern Slavery Lead at the Mercy Foundation, speaks about family violence, forced marriage and homelessness.
• Sunila Kotwal: Executive Officer, Immigrant Women SpeakOut Association. Sunila speaks about successful interventions and solutions to enable women to gain independence and end their homelessness.