In Episode 2, Vahideh speaks with Rodney Vlais on the importance of looking at patriarchal structures in violence against women.
Making the Links Podcast: Episode 1
In this first Making the Links Podcast Episode, Vahideh Eisaei speaks with Zia Ebrahim from Sunraysia Community Health Service about the importance of involving community and faith leaders in preventing violence.
THE MUSES PROJECT: Multicultural and settlement services supporting women experiencing violence
New evidence to support migrant and refugee women’s health, safety and wellbeing MCWH is proud to share the findings of new research we conducted in three Australian states about the current and potential role of settlement and multicultural services in…
WRAP #71: Hear Me Too, sexual harrassment and 60 seconds with Hoa Pham
If you haven’t noticed, the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence has begun! It’s a global campaign, it’s positive, it’s powerful and it is ORANGE! So orange in fact that Respect Victoria, our new statutory body to prevent violence…
#HearMeToo: celebrating migrant women’s work to prevent violence
This year marks the sixth incarnation of the United Nation’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign, and the theme for 2018 is #HearMeToo. The focus of the campaign is to bring to the forefront the voices of women…
How to change the culture of sexual harrassment
The Australian Human Rights Commission found that an astonishing 85% of Australian women have experienced sexual harassment in their workplace at some point in their lives. So far from being a horrible but random occurrence, sexual harassment in Australian workplaces…
Prevention is better than cure
Anyone who works in the area of prevention knows how hard it is to prove the link between that small change we could make today and the gigantic impact that change could make in a month, a year, a decade…
Intersectionality Matters: A new resource for preventing violence against women
Intersectionality Matters: A guide to engaging immigrant and refugee communities to prevent violence against women
Getting a head start on prevention
Preventing violence against women is a long-term endeavour. It requires deep cultural change in the way that we, as a community, practice our gendered interpersonal, family, workplace and social relationships. Alongside that cultural change, it means building women’s equality into…