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women's safety, women's voices

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The forums for multicultural women were all conducted in workshop format, with interpreters on hand to facilitate conversations. The same format and discussion questions were used at all forums for women, enabling a consistency of information as well as providing opportunities for all women to participate. Women need to have a more influential voice than they do now. One way of accomplishing this is to encourage women to speak for themselves and articulate their values and priorities, from the grassroots to the national level.7 The VMC forums for multicultural women presented just such an opportunity. The trend towards multiculturalism has been a trend towards the greater accommodation of ethnocultural diversity, inspired by the rise of a human rights culture.1 The advent of human rights reframed ideas about ethnic and racial equality that contested prior held ideas about a hierarchy of peoples. The link between equality and racial discrimination was made explicit in the 1965 United Nations (UN) International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which was ratified in Australia, as a legislative expression of a new commitment to multiculturalism, in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).2 Multiculturalism can also be understood as a process of building civil relations, serving as an effective vehicle for creating and consolidating relations of liberal-democratic citizenship.

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KP IV DEL w

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Melbourne : The office of women's policy., 2002

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39 hlm. ; 23 cm.

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English

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KP.IV

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Perempuan
Keamanan wanita
Keamanan perempuan

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