Michelle Higelin

Women leaders around the country are united in their call for immediate action to address the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.

On the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Australia announced it will gift $33 million worth of spy drones to the besieged nation. Few would quibble with us helping Ukraine defend its sovereignty. But what if we were equally generous in investing in peace? 

ActionAid’s new report highlights how fashion brands continue to push the costs of the pandemic onto the garment workers making clothes, 80% of whom are women.

COVID-19 has already shown us it is possible to take urgent and radical action on a global scale. This is a moment to push for a sustainable future.

Just a tiny portion of response funding following a humanitarian crisis is allocated to programs considering the unique needs and rights of women.

Decades of activism has resulted in many of the world’s women – although not all – achieving gender equality on paper, but this has not been reflected in practice. That’s changing as we take power into our own hands.

The work women perform in disasters is nothing short of heroic, but too often these stories go unheard and unrecognised.