Welcome to our latest weekly Round-Up. We wish all of you a happy festive season and new year! We sincerely thank you for your support this year. In 2015, violence against women has attracted much-needed attention in the media. For this, we congratulate women’s organisations around the country, including our Advisory Group, for their tireless [...]
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has released the National Outcome Standards for Perpetrator Interventions (NOSPI), which was developed by Commonwealth, state and territory governments. The Standards are: 1. Women and their children’s safety is the core priority of all perpetrator interventions; 2. Perpetrators get the right interventions at the right time; 3. Perpetrators face [...]
The Commonwealth Department of Social Security has released research commissioned to inform a national campaign to reduce violence against women and their children, identifying three key patterns we need to overcome: victim-blaming; minimising the seriousness of the violence; and the tendency to empathise with men/boys rather than women/girls (the desire to avoid blaming males). The [...]
"The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is marked around the world annually on 3 December, as per General Assembly resolution 47/3 of 14 October 1992, to promote awareness and mobilize support for critical issues pertaining to the inclusion of persons with disabilities in society and development." For more information, visit: http://www.un.org/en/events/disabilitiesday/
"By resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designed to raise public awareness of the problem on that day. Women's activists have marked 25 November as a [...]
World-first framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and more * Round-Up 23 November Our Watch, in partnership with Vic Health and ANROWS, have released Change the Story, a shared framework for preventing violence against women and their children. The framework, the first of its kind in the world, makes it clear that [...]
In Victoria, schools will soon offer an elective course on feminism designed by Fitzroy High School’s feminist collective. The course is aimed at male and female secondary students and includes about 30 lessons on systemic sexism, the objectification of women, and the link between gender inequality and violence against women. Teacher Briony O’Keefe says a growing number [...]
Welcome to AWAVA’s weekly round-up of news. This week, Victorian MP Cathy McGowan introduced a private member’s bill to amend the Family Law Act to stop alleged abusers from cross-examining victims of domestic violence. Community pressure on the government to pass the amendment is building. You can support this cause by signing ‘Eleanor’s Petition’ on [...]
AWAVA is hiring! We are looking for a casual policy officer to join our Canberra office for three to four months. The Policy Officer will provide support to the Program Manager to deliver the aims and objectives of AWAVA. On a day to day basis the Policy Officer will be responsible for drafting policy documents [...]
"The first International Day of Rural Women was observed on 15 October 2008. This new international day, established by the General Assembly in its resolution 62/136 of 18 December 2007, recognizes “the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty.”" [...]