Welcome to this week’s round-up of news. This week, the Prime Minister requested an investigation into the Safe Schools program, which aims to create a safe and inclusive environment for same-sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse students. At AWAVA, we believe that #weneedsafeschools to ensure that all young people feel safe and respected. We encourage [...]
Welcome to AWAVA’s latest weekly round-up of news! Our sister alliance, Equality Rights Alliance (ERA), is looking for a motivated, innovative and independent person to join the ERA team as a part-time Administration Officer. ERA is a national non-government network advocating for women’s equality. If you are interested in working with a team of dedicated individuals, [...]
Welcome to the latest AWAVA Weekly-Round Up. We are delighted to announce that the two keynote speakers at the AWAVA/Our Watch international conference in September 2016 will be Marai Larasi and Rashida Manjoo. Marai Larasi is Executive Director of Imkaan, a UK-based organisation dedicated to addressing violence against Black women and girls. Rashida Majoo was [...]
Welcome to our latest round up of news from the preventing and responding to violence against women sector. AWAVA is excited to announce that we have started a blog to create a platform to share the fantastic work that women around the country are doing to address gender-based violence. Over the course of the year, [...]
Women’s services continue to highlight the prevalence of technology-facilitated violence and abuse. Last week AWAVA made a submission to a Senate Inquiry in which we recommended that the unauthorised sharing of intimate images be made a criminal offence under federal law. As we noted in the submission, ‘the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, or the [...]
Welcome to this week’s round up of news about preventing and responding to violence against women. This week, women’s services and activists will be acknowledging Australian of the Year Rosie Batty’s passionate and tireless advocacy. Join us in thanking Rosie Batty for starting a national conversation on violence against women. Post a tweet with the [...]
Welcome to the new year! We have lots of exciting plans for 2016, including hosting an international conference with Our Watch (details below). We look forward to working with all of you in continuing our advocacy towards a future in which all women and children can live free from violence. Our main areas of focus [...]
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 [...]