Preventing Violence Together Partnership, November 2015 Why gender matters: a guide for community health services is a resource designed to increase the capacity of community health services to be gender equitable health service providers and employers. The short animated film contains an overview of gender equity and it’s impacts on health, and ways that community health services … Continue reading Why gender matters: a guide for community health services
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Change the story: a shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia
Our Watch, ANROWS and VicHealth, 2015 Change the story presents the evidence and a conceptual approach for preventing violence against women and their children in Australia. It is a framework for a shared understanding and collaborative action, with six interrelated elements, all of which need to be in place to achieve this objective. The framework … Continue reading Change the story: a shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia
Progress of the World’s Women, 2015-2016
UN Women, 2015 This report draws on the experiences of those working toward gender equality and women’s rights around the world. Twenty years after the Beijing Conference, there is a strong and growing global consensus on the need to achieve gender equality. We have made significant strides towards this goal, but those achievements haven’t yet … Continue reading Progress of the World’s Women, 2015-2016
She Speaks Report 2014
YMCA Australia, 2014 The She Speaks survey of 1600 young women, ages 15-30 in Australia is the largest survey of its kind “collecting information from young women about their attitudes, perceptions and experiences of leadership”. The report from YWCA and report from the Institute of Social Science Research (ISSR) at the University of Queensland has found … Continue reading She Speaks Report 2014
The Preventing Violence Against Women Lancet Series
This series of papers covers a variety of key topics about preventing violence against women and girls including lessons from practice and working with men and boy to change social norms.
Ending workplace sexual harassment: a resource for small, medium and large employers
Title: Ending workplace sexual harassment: A resource for small, medium and large employers Author: Australian Human Rights Commission Date of Publication: 2014 The ability to work in a safe environment, free from sexual harassment, is a basic human right. While we have the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 , sexual harassment in the workplace continues to … Continue reading Ending workplace sexual harassment: a resource for small, medium and large employers
Involving men in ending violence against women
Dr Michael Flood’s key note address, Involving men in ending violence against women: Gender inequality is the problem, and gender equality is the solution focusses on three key points: Men’s violence against women is fundamentally linked to gender inequalities Men’s involvements in violence prevention are shaped by these same gender inequalities Gender inequality is the … Continue reading Involving men in ending violence against women
Time for Action: The National Council’s Plan for Australia to Reduce Violence Against Women
Time for Action: The National Council’s Plan for Australia to Reduce Violence Against Women The National Council to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children
National Action Plans on Violence Against Women in the EU
National Action Plans on Violence Against Women in the EU European Women’s Lobby
Handbook for National Action Plans on Violence Against Women
Handbook for National Action Plans on Violence Against Women UN Women