The Women Deliver 2026 Conference in Naarm (Melbourne) is a critical moment for our movements to gather, strategize, and shift power.
La Conferencia Women Deliver 2026 en Naarm (Melbourne) es un momento crítico para que nuestros movimientos se reúnan, metabolicen estrategias y desplacen el poder.
Women Enabled International (WEI) is proud to lead and participate in spaces that center the leadership of Feminist Disabled Changemakers. | En Women Enabled International (WEI), nos enorgullece liderar y participar en espacios que centran el liderazgo de las activistas FemiDiscas Cambiando Al Mundo.
See below for our full schedule and join us in creating a future of collective liberation. | Consulta nuestro calendario completo a continuación y únete a nosotros para crear un futuro de liberación colectiva.
Please note: All times are in AEST (Melbourne time) unless otherwise noted. | Nota: Todos los horarios corresponden a AEST (hora de Melbourne), a menos que se indique lo contrario.
Virtual Warm-up
Disabled Changemakers at WD2026: Preparing to Influence & Lead
Women Enabled International (WEI) Delegation
April 16, 2026 | 10:00 – 12:00 ET | Online via Zoom
Before we meet in person, we will gather virtually to align our strategies and advocacy. This is the space to prepare and ensure our voices lead the conversation in Melbourne.
Pre-Conference Events
Leading Our Own Liberation: A Pre-Conference for Feminist Disabled Changemakers
WEI Delegation
April 26, 2026 | 9:00 – 17:00 | Melbourne Convention Centre (MCEC), Room 218
Join a global community of feminist changemakers with disabilities for one powerful day of disability-led dialogues, collective strategizing, and movement building. We will resist systems that push us to the margins and reimagine feminist leadership centering our lived experiences.
- Note: Interpretation available in English and Spanish. Sign up here
Convening: Feminist Mobilization for Women’s Health & SRHR in Asia Pacific
Shiela May Inmenzo Aggarao, Secretary at NOVEL, nominations and advocacy by WEI
Ishani Cordeiro, Programs Manager at WEI
April 27, 2026 | 8:30 – 13:30 hrs. | MCEC, Room 211
This Pre-Conference session will focus on strengthening movement resilience, countering anti-rights and the gender pushback, addressing demographic challenges, and defining pathways for sustainable, climate-resilient financing for women’s rights and women-led organizations.
Main Conference & Plenaries
WD2026 General Conference: Reclaim Power, Deliver Results
Women Deliver
April 27 – 30, 2026 | Melbourne Convention Centre (MCEC)
WEI Delegation is attending WD2026 General Conference as an strategic space to align around shared feminist direction, reclaim power, and deliver real-world outcomes.
From Resistance to Renewal: Seizing the Moment to Build a Feminist Future
Maryangel García Ramos, Executive Director at WEI
April 28, 2026 | 9:30 – 11:00 hrs. | MCEC General
This plenary session will ground delegates in the realities of this moment: rising authoritarianism, growing attacks on rights, and shrinking resources.
Autonomy is Collective: Bodily Autonomy and Community Power
Estefanía Cubillos, LAC Collective, nominations and advocacy by WEI
April 28, 2026 | 14:00 – 15:30 hrs. | MCEC General
This session centers communities not as recipients of change, but as the people leading it. Grounded in struggles for sex work decriminalization, reproductive justice, and grassroots organizing, it makes the case that protecting autonomy requires collective responsibility across systems and sectors, and sustained, community-led action, rather than institutional goodwill alone.
Side Events & Concurrent Sessions
Transforming Power, Restoring Reproductive Agency
Co-hosted by WEI, with participation from Maryangel García Ramos, ED at WEI
April 28, 2026 | 7:30am – 9:30am hrs. | MCEC Room 203, Level 2
Co-Hosted Side Event at Women Deliver 2026 examining the rise of obstetric violence across the continuum of sexual and reproductive health care. The discussion will explore how violations of rights manifest in different settings: from mistreatment during childbirth, to coercion in contraceptive counselling, to disrespectful and punitive treatment for those seeking abortion care.
- Note: Interpretation available in English and Spanish. Sign up here
Solidarity in Action
Ishani Cordeiro, Programs Manager at WEI
April 29, 2026 | 14:30 – 16:00 hrs. | Check our website for updated location
Ishani Cordeiro from Women Enabled International
A co-organized concurrent session focusing on cross-movement solidarity and joint action.
The Gender and Disability Solidarity Meet-up
Hosted by WEI Delegation
April 29, 2026 | Check our website for updated time | MCEC General Areas
Resourcing Feminist Futures: Power, Politics, and the Future of Funding
Maria Ni Flatharta from DRF and CIP, nominations and advocacy by WEI
April 29, 2026 | 11:30 – 13:00 hrs. | MCEC General
At the Horizon of Justice & Healing
Maryangel García Ramos from Women Enabled International
April 29, 2026 | 16:00 – 18:00 hrs. | Queen Victoria Women’s Centre
Exploring feminist leadership transitions rooted in the power and wisdom of the Global Majority, prioritizing healing and radical care.
Be Part of What Comes Next | Sé parte de lo que viene