conference proceedings

Townsville International Women's Conference -  Australia

“Poverty, Violence and Women’s Rights: ...Setting a Global Agenda”
3 - 7 July 2002 ~ James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Dorcas Mofoluwake Akande

A stylistic analysis of some linguistic expressions of the new information age within the context of feminism and indigenous culture

Rashmi Bhat

Feminisation of Poverty and Empowerment of Women - An Indian Perspective & Experience

Summer Bland

Systematic Rape as a Weapon of War

Summer Bland

No Going Back on Beijing Platform for Action

Catalina Constantinescu
“Trafficking Human Being”- why, where and what are we doing about it?

Christine Delphy (Keynote Address)                                      
A War for Afghan Women?
Janelle Evans
Poem: The Message

Devaki Monani Ghansham
Female Foeticide And The Dowry System In India
Betty Green and Irene Pearce

The Criminalisation of Women: The Impact and Implications of Financial Abuse
Lynne Harne

Childcare, violence and fathering – Are violent fathers who look after their children, likely to be less abusive?

Nonie Harris

Policy and Ideology: The Impact on Women's Lives

Susan Hawthorne

The Structures of Violence: A Feminist Analysis of Patents and Free Trade

Jennifer Horn

A Response to the Language of Violence and Oppression

Cecille Iguiron-Fantastico

Gender Issues in Globalization-Related Legislations: Senate Debates and Impacts on Women
P Imrana Jalal (Keynote Address)                                              

Gender Issues in post coup d'etat Fiji: Snapshots from the Fiji Islands
(a short story of life in the feminist trenches)

Sarina Jan
I am an Australian Woman, who is Indigenous, please stop categorising me as just being an Indigenous Woman!

Sarina Jan
Understanding the Structure & Operations of OSW’s Current National Secretariats 

Renate Klein (Keynote Address)
When Silence is not Golden: the radical feminist dilemma of not criticising other feminists
Mercedes Llarinas-Angeles

Monitoring the Philippine Rape Laws: The Policy and the Myths
Mercedes Llarinas-Angeles

FLOW CHART: To whom Shall the Rape Survivor Turn to?
Dr. Ruchama Marton (Keynote Address)                                    

Tactics of Oppression in the ‘Peace Negotiations’ between Israel and the Palestinians: A Feminist Perspective

Deb Miles
Women’s Experience as Workers in Feminist Organisations
Florence Onus

The On-Going Impacts of Racist Policies of the Past
Glenda Raines

Voluntary Euthanasia
Shirley Randell

Vanuatu South Pacific: The Girl Child
(presented at the Conference by Asha Sine of Vanuatu)
Tess Raposas

Depicting and Enhancing Women Media’s Role in Social Transformation and Action

Jocelynne A. Scutt
Australian Story/Back Story
S. Caroline Taylor (Keynote Address)                                       

Intrafamilial Rape and the Law In Australia: Upholding the Lore of the Father
Kerrie Tim (Keynote Address)  
Leading World Change - The Intersection of Racism and Sexism 
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Pauline Woodbridge (Speaker's Stone)                                   

School of Life – School of Hard Knocks
Bronwyn Winter (Keynote Address)  
Women’s Rights, Globalisation and the Nation-State: Are Human Rights and Democracy Enough?
NQDVRS Panel: “Many Pieces Make a Whole”
Joanne Baker
Catherine Bessant