Women Deliver 2026: solidarity, resistance, and reimagination
Summary:
Join ILGA World and our partners at these events at the 2026 Women Deliver Conference happening in Narrm, Melbourne, Australia!
The Women Deliver 2026 Conference (WD2026) is more than a conference — it’s a rallying point for feminist solidarity, resistance, and reimagination.
For the first time, the Women Deliver Conference will be regionally hosted. But this moment goes beyond geography: it’s about shifting power. WD2026 will centre the leadership, knowledge, and resistance of feminists, activists, and First Nations leaders across the Oceanic Pacific, a region at the forefront of climate justice, gender equality, and decolonisation.
At a time when gender equality is under attack, WD2026 will be a radical space for movement-building — created by us, for us — to strategise, resist, and push back against the escalating threats to the rights of girls, women, and gender-diverse people worldwide.
If you are at WD26, join ILGA World at the events we will co-host. Support and add your voice, so that we can collectively address the issues affecting lesbian, bisexual, trans, and intersex women, as well as our communities at large!
Pride Brings Us Here: Welcome reception for LGBTIQA+ delegates for the Women Deliver Conference 2026
We are co-hosting a welcome reception for LGBTI delegates of the Women Deliver Conference 2026!
Pride Brings Us Here will be a joyous, celebratory, fully inclusive welcome reception and networking event bringing together Victorian, Australian and Asia Pacific feminist SOGIESC / LGBTIQA+ change agents, and which will centre diverse voices, particularly Pasifika and Indigenous / First Nations’ perspectives.
Please note: access to this event is by invitation only
PLEASE NOTE: Participation in events on this list is open only to those who have registered for the Women Deliver conference. Pre-registered participants will receive information about the location of each event directly from Women Deliver.
Queers Deliver: LGBTI WD26 pre-conference
This inaugural pre-conference positions queer and feminist movements at the heart of Women Deliver — affirming that when we defend agency in all its diversity, we strengthen the entire women’s movement.
Event language(s): English
Date: MonTime: 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM AEST (Australia Eastern Standard Time)
WHO advancing LGBTQI+ health: Evidence, accountability and multilateral action
During this meeting at the Multilateral Hub, ILGA World’s Executive Director, Julia Ehrt, will be in conversation with Dr Pascale Allotey, Director of the Human Reproduction Special Program at the World Health Organisation.
This conversation will explore how global health guidelines and international organisations can better support LGBTI people. It will examine where current systems fall short in meeting the unique needs of different groups within the LGBTI community, who often face violence and discrimination. The discussion aims to identify ways to improve care and ensure these communities receive the specific support they require.
Date: TuesdayTime: 10:30 – 11:45 AM AEST (Australia Eastern Standard Time)
Location: Multilateralism Hub
Autonomy is collective: Bodily autonomy and community power
This plenary session centres communities as the people leading change. Grounded in struggles for sex work decriminalisation, reproductive justice, and grassroots organising, it makes the case that protecting autonomy requires collective responsibility across systems and sectors, and sustained, community-led action, rather than institutional goodwill alone.
Crystal Hendricks, Specialist on sex characteristics at ILGA World, will be on the panel.
Date: Tuesday 28 April
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM AEST
Location: Plenary Hall
The SRHR and SOGIESC lab: reimagining strategies for multilateralism advocacy
This session is for organisations, activists, and human rights defenders working at different levels to brainstorm about what we hope to achieve in the upcoming years.
Date: TuesdayTime: 2:00 – 3:30 PM AEST (Australia Eastern Standard Time)
Event co-hosted by: ILGA World, Global Justice Center, RFSL, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Just Futures Collaborative, ASVIOL Support Initiative, Woodhull Freedom Foundation.
From decisions to action: Leveraging litigation for inclusive and equitable climate justice
This session seeks to explore how the LGBTQIA+ movement, in partnership with other sectors, can leverage these legal tools, drawing on previous experience, to advance climate justice.
Date: WednesdTime: 9:30 – 11:00 AM AEST (Australia Eastern Standard Time)
Event co-hosted by: ILGA World, Oceania Pride, PISFCC, Out for Sustainability, Edge Effect
Solidarity in action: bridging divides for collective resistance
Grounded in lived experience, this session will start a dialogue towards a collective vision of solidarity.
Date: WednesTime: 9:30 – 11:00 AM AEST (Australia Eastern Standard Time)
Event co-hosted by: ILGA World, Women Deliver, UN Human Rights (OHCHR), IPPF, Amnesty International, CREA, Women Enabled International, Noor, Fos Feminista.
Commission 2048: shaping inclusive governance and bringing a vision for human rights
This session introduces Commission 2048, an initiative designed to foster inclusive and forward-thinking processes for shaping the next century of global justice.
Date: WednesTime: 12:00 – 1:30 PM AEST (Australia Eastern Standard Time)
Event co-hosted by: ILGA World, Amnesty International, IPPF.
The solidarity shield: Strengthening our movements to make multilateralism work for all
Join ILGA World Executive Director, Julia Ehrt and Lo Riches, Policy and Advocacy Advisor at Women Deliver, for a conversation on navigating increasingly contested multilateral spaces.
In this fireside chat, we explore how organisations can strengthen cross-movement solidarity to respond to coordinated backlash and shifting power dynamics. The conversation will focus on building bridges across movements, strengthening shared strategies, and sustaining collaboration across diverse agendas to support long-term cross-movement efforts in multilateral spaces.
Date: WednesTime: 4:00 – 5:00 PM AEST (Australia Eastern Standard Time)
Location: Multilateralism Hub
