Welcome to this week’s Round-Up! Women at university are pushing back against a culture that tolerates sexual violence and fails to hold perpetrators to account. Women students are widely subjected to sexual assault, harassment, and abuse, as documented by AWAVA member organisation the National University of Students Women’s Department in their recent Talk About It [...]
The ‘Nauru files’, a compilation of reports by guards, caseworkers and teachers as well as accounts of victims/survivors, has documented the magnitude of abuses inflicted on asylum seekers held in the Nauru detention centre, including sexual and other forms of violence against women and children. [Warning: these files contain details that may distress readers.] Asylum [...]
Have you ever wanted to know more about how movements in our Pacific region are working to prevent violence against women in their own countries and beyond? Interested in making connections between violence prevention in Australia and work being done internationally? The AWAVA/Our Watch conference, Prevalent & Preventable (19-22 September, Adelaide), includes a stream dedicated [...]
A detailed program for Prevalent & Preventable has been released, featuring a range of participatory, action-focused sessions. Hosted in Adelaide by AWAVA and Our Watch on 19–22 September 2016, this international conference is dedicated to exploring emerging opportunities to prevent violence against women across the diversity of Australian society and beyond. View the full preliminary program here! Newly confirmed speakers include Antoinette Braybrook (Family Violence Prevention [...]
Women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, women with disability and the LGBTQI community need to have a more central place in our efforts to end violence against women. The upcoming AWAVA/Our Watch conference, Prevalent & Preventable (Adelaide, 19-22 September), will explore tailored actions to address intersecting forms of inequality and oppression, in order to [...]
Prevalent and Preventable is an international conference dedicated to exploring emerging opportunities to prevent violence against women across the diversity of Australian society (Adelaide, 19-22 September), co-hosted by AWAVA and Our Watch. Early bird rates have been extended to 29 July, so register now! Two of the great speakers confirmed for the Aboriginal and Torres [...]
Rosie Batty is now confirmed as a speaker at Prevalent & Preventable, the AWAVA/Our Watch international conference on preventing violence against women, 19-22 September in Adelaide. The conference will be dedicated to exploring emerging opportunities to prevent violence against women across the diversity of Australian society. Also featured: accountability as violence prevention. Come and hear Helen [...]
We are excited to announce more great speakers confirmed for Prevalent & Preventable, the AWAVA/Our Watch conference on the prevention of violence against women. In the Children and Young People as Agents of Change stream, we will have Jennifer Uwineza and Andrew Taukolo from #R4Respect in Logan City, Queensland, speaking on campaigns and cultural change [...]
Skill up at the AWAVA/Our Watch conference in September! Confirmed sessions include training on technology safety to be run by the Women’s Services Network (WESNET) and media training by Our Watch, to help people working in our sector improve the way we communicate with the media and get appropriate coverage of violence against women issues. [...]
The Federation of Community Legal Centres Australia has sent an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling for the government to act urgently to address the funding crisis in the community legal sector. AWAVA supports the letter, and calls for funding to ensure that victims/survivors of violence have adequate and affordable access to legal services. [...]