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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
This report, in the words of Women for Women International president and CEO, Zainab Salbi, is grounded in "the belief that a nation cannot prosper, nor can peace be sustained, without the full participation of women." (4)
This manual contains a variety of information around understanding the federal legislative process, including action tools such as tips for meeting with your legislator.
This document summarizes the available research on childhood stress and its implications for adult health and well-being. Of particular interest is the stress caused by child abuse, neglect, and repeated exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV). This publication provides violence prevention practitioners with ideas about how to incorporate information on childhood stress into their work.
"This article discusses evaluation data that was gathered from an Indigenous empowerment program aimed at increasing personal empowerment in order to improve individual and social wellbeing. Our analysis of the data demonstrates the success of the program in building personal strength, increasing ability to assist others, and increasing motivation to challenge structural factors impacting on health equality.
While these programs are diverse, there are factors that many of them have in common. The first is that the majority could be described as Ôbottom up' rather than Ôtop down.' Most of them originated at the local level, driven by priorities decided by individual Indigenous communities. Some employed methodologies pioneered elsewhere, but these were adapted so they have local relevance. Most of the programs depend on the knowledge, authority and support of community Elders for their success.
"Non-government agencies working directly with Aboriginal children and families and Aboriginal communities continue to have profoundly negative experiences with the system. Making a child protection notification does not seem to provide people with any confidence that the child they are concerned about will be protected. In fact the commonly held view is that making a notification will simply make the child's situation worse. Non reporting of child abuse and neglect is higher in the Northern Territory than elsewhere with mandatory reporting requirements either ignored or not understood.
"This short paper comments on the likely effectiveness of the [Australian Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007's] proposals and puts forward a set of practical immediate measures and long term reform proposals to address the problem.
Developed in response to the Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse (also known as Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle "Little Children Are Sacred"), advocates for Aboriginal people, children and victims/survivors of sexual abuse critique the measures as irrelevant to the recommendations of the report, discriminatory, developed without participation of Aboriginal people and a means for the federal government to subvert and reverse the self-determination of indigenous people.
Part I details results of consultations and formal submissions, and provides recommendations "to address child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and, more broadly, the issue of child sexual abuse for all Territory children and young people." Part II consists of a literature review and assessment of child sexual abuse and related issues.
This is a compiled list of existing state laws and pending legislation that counteract the legal problems that victims of domestic violence face in obtaining housing. This document also includes measures that:
