Suggested Resolution on CLIMATE CHANGE to be proposed by AFMW at the 2010 MWIA Congress. 

MWIA acknowledges that climate change is occurring as a result of human activity, particularly in the use of fossil fuels and recognizes the reports of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  MWIA recognizes that climate change will have widespread health and social consequences for many people.  MWIA urges a radical reduction in greenhouse gas emission in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol.  
MWIA recognizes that as a result of climate change, sea levels will rise which will displace certain populations.  

MWIA supports that people who are displaced as a result of climate change be granted refugee status. 

MWIA recognizes the responsibility of industrialised countries to assist other nations, both financially and with technical assistance, in their adapting and responding to the climate change that is already affecting them, as well as assisting these countries to reduce their contribution to further climate change.

Suggested Resolution on HUMAN RIGHTS FOR GLBTI PEOPLE. (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex peoples) to be proposed by AFMW at the 2010 MWIA Congress. MWIA recognizes that in many countries homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people face discrimination in the form of violence and persecution. MWIA acknowledges that it is a basic human right to live and work free from such discrimination and persecution. Therefore, MWIA urges governments to remove legislation that discriminates against GLBTI peoples, and urges for legislation to protect the basic human rights of GLBTI peoples. And MWIA encourages that where there is the substantial threat or actual persecution and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, that this be grounds for refugee status being granted. 

We had a great turn out for our autumn dinner

In April 2009, MWS of NSW held a dinner/speaker event at AMA House.  One

Our Facebook group Medical Women’s Society of New South Wales,