Tackling the ‘big problems’ women face in the world starts with the truth

From disability rights to gender equity to climate change, four women tell us how we can accelerate change in the world from four vastly different vantage points.

By Kate Kachor

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From disability rights to gender equity to climate change, four women tell us how we can accelerate change in the world from four vastly different vantage points.

By Kate Kachor

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Elly Desmarchelier delivered a series of statistics, each more harrowing than the first.

The Australian disability rights campaigner spoke with a measured tone as she shared that 71 per cent of people with disabilities will report being abused or suffer from violence or be neglected at some point in their life.

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