Rigid gender roles and stereotyped constructions of masculinity and femininity are key drivers of violence against women. And a large body of academic research shows traditional attitudes towards gender are one of the strongest predictors of attitudes that support this violence. Australia's world-first national framework to prevent violence against women identifies challenging rigid gender roles and stereotypes as a key action in preventing such action in the first place. To create lasting change, prevention needs to encompass multiple strategies across a range of places in our community. One key strategy is to begin early in the home. This is an article worth reading with lots of practical tips. Read it here. |
Realising that real estate agents are in a unique position to see the "warning signs" of domestic violence, Stephanie Dunn's company Embassy Real Estate will next month launch a nation-wide program called DV Aware for real estate professionals.
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City of Glen Eira launches its Family Violence Action Plan 2018-19 and gives impact a good rap26/7/2018
We’ve been talking about family violence for a long time now but there are still some myths that just won’t go away. The most pernicious myth is that family violence is only physical violence and only men who are irredeemable and unlovable would do it.
read the full story here 'Serious' risks of domestic violence in new online health system according to some women's agencies25/7/2018
The UN delivered a scathing critique of Australia’s failures to protect and promote the rights of women and girls. While the committee noted areas of improvement including marriage equality, the introduction of the paid parental leave scheme and the prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, it also issued over 90 recommendations for improvement, demonstrating that negative aspects far outweigh progress on women’s rights.
Read the full story here. Reproductive coercion is yet another form of relationship abuse.
Just as universal access to health services is a vital part of ensuring good sexual and reproductive health outcomes, so too is the need for people to be able to exercise their reproductive autonomy. Over the coming months, Marie Stopes Australia will seek further input into the draft White Paper with a view to releasing the final version in late October 2018. The second stage of consultation will conclude on 17 August 2018. Read the full article here Download the draft white paper here From female genital mutilation to domestic violence to femicide, women and girls around the world are living in fear.
The etymology of the word terrorism comes from the Latin terror, meaning, “fright, fear, terror,” and from terrēre, “to frighten, terrify.” According to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), 171 people died from terrorist attacks in 2015. By comparison, in just 20 European countries mapped by Eurostat in 2015, 1014 females died from femicide — almost six times as many. No matter where in the world we live, women are afraid of men — whether those men are strangers on the street or on public transit, fathers or husbands, or other authority figures who use their power to exploit. As long as men’s violence is institutionalized, normalized, and internalized, women will not be able to escape it or hold men accountable. This pandemic violation of human rights is not just violence against women and girls, but terrorism against women and girls. Perhaps if we started referring to it as such, worldwide governments will finally understand this as a serious threat and take action. Read the full story here
![]() Samantha (not her real name) is educated. All she ever wanted was a stable and healthy relationship. Speaking from a refuge where she has been living with her newborn fourth child she recalls her story. Forced to kneel on the verandah by her machete-wielding partner, she kept thinking ‘Just get out and survive’. His sister started to call the police and he turned around to say ‘What are you doing?’ “I ran as fast as I could – and felt like spewing the whole way – to where my baby was, grabbed them and ran through the bush.” Read the full story here. But one caller to ABC Radio Melbourne has done an amazing job of uniting a huge number of women and men, who agreed her poem about society's response to violence against women summed up their own feelings. Carmel is a psychologist who works in the domestic violence field. She said she was fascinated by how "good, decent men often jump in to defend men, rather than listen to what women are saying". The text line quickly lit up.
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Millions of excited British football fans are gearing up for the World Cup semi final while thousands of women and children in abusive households are preparing for the worst. Domestic violence incidents increase during major sporting events like the World Cup and British emergency services expect abuse to spike following Thursday’s game, especially if England loses.A shocking new photo campaign from the UK’s National Centre for Domestic Violence (NCDV) has launched ahead of the match, with the tagline, “If England gets beaten, so will she.”
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As a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Australian government is expected to present to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination every four years but the last time they presented was in 2010.
Given Australia’s global economic standing, the Committee was extremely concerned by cuts to women’s shelter services and the housing, financial and legal services upon which the most vulnerable women rely. The Committee criticised Australia for cutting specialised services designed to help women escape violence in the home and replacing them with mainstreamed services. The Committee considered it unreasonable to expect a woman who has been the victim of male violence to seek refuge at a shelter that now also serves men. Read the full story here. Study reveals that nearly half of female healthcare workers have experienced domestic abuse4/7/2018
A landmark investigation published in the BMC Women's Health journal involved 471 female doctors, nurses and health professionals in Victoria found that nearly half have experienced domestic violence with one in 10 having been abused by their partner in the past year alone.
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