Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. There has been a great deal of reflection, both within the preventing violence against women sector and in the broader community, during the past week. Many commentators have spoken about the dramatic increase in reporting on violence against women in recent times. And yet, the [...]

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Weekly Round-Up, now coming to you through our brand new newsletter distribution system!This week has seen massive public conversations as people process the reality of gender-based violence and misogyny in our communities. The poignant and unfiltered conversation taking place under the hashtag #yesallwomen is discussed in several of the links [...]

In this week’s edition of the Weekly Round-Up, we have highlighted a huge variety of programs, strategies, and research focussing on preventing and eliminating violence against women. From legal assistance to public marches, from educating school children to training doctors, and in so many other ways, our communities are stepping up to address gender-based violence. [...]

Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Round-Up. This has been a week of considerable developments in the preventing violence against women sector, in particular with the launch of ANROWS – Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. ANROWS forms an integral part of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their [...]

In this week’s edition of the Weekly Round-Up, we feature articles both from victims and survivors of violence, and from services dedicated to preventing and eliminating violence against women. Despite the many differences in perspective and focus among these articles, one thing is clear: it will require the entire community, working together, if we are [...]

This week AWAVA said a final farewell to our outgoing Program Manager Dr Trishima Mitra-Kahn. Trish will be much missed for all her work in amplifying and harnessing member expertise so that AWAVA continues to deliver best-practice VAW policy advice and advocacy. We wish her the best for her future endeavours! Our Chairperson, Ms Julie Oberin [...]

  Welcome to another edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up! We are delighted to announce that the National Women's Alliances will be reporting back on their attendance at the fifty-eighth session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The CSW report back Forum in Sydney will allow you to hear directly from women who attended [...]

Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up, with all of the latest news and links from the sector. The AWAVA team would like to wish you all a happy and safe long weekend. We would also like to thank our outgoing Program Manager, Dr Trishima Mitra-Kahn and wish her all the best. We are [...]

Welcome once again to the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week has seen people from incredibly diverse backgrounds and in a large variety of locations expressing their support and solidarity with victims and survivors of violence against women. In acknowledging that violence against women is both a consequence and a cause of gender inequality, AWAVA believes [...]

This Weekly Round-Up comes to you at the end of Stop Street Harassment Week. AWAVA is proud to have participated in and co-sponsored this global event once again this year. We firmly believe that women and girls have the right to feel and be safe in private and in public. Street harassment is a form of gender-based violence [...]