In this episode, we will talk to Veena Barsiwal on family violence and its impact on victim/survivors’ mental health and well-being.
WRAP #87: #HerNameIs
The red shoes protest in Mexico in 2020 against femicide. Credit: Canva Much has been written over the last few months about the significant hardship faced by Australian international students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates have expressed concerns about the…
Webinar: Kathryn Aedy on Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities
Mark your calendars! Our PVAW (Prevention of Violence Against Women) Team Leader, Kathryn Aedy, will be speaking on a webinar hosted by ANROWS about the ‘Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities’.…
Conference keynote speakers announced!
In almost a months’ time, we will be hosting Advancing the Evidence, a national conference on migrant and refugee women’s sexual and reproductive health. Over two days, Advancing the Evidence will share current evidence, new research, and innovative and proven…
The complexity of culture
Migrants and refugees are all so different from each other that it can be quite difficult sometimes to find a common experience among us. However, one thing that we often say and hear from the women we work with is…
Joint submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on Elder Abuse
The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health and the University of Melbourne provided the following submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission Inquiry on Elder Abuse. The submission draws on recent research showing that elder abuse is gendered and immigrant and…
Simplifying Complexity
Violence against women has been getting the attention it deserves lately. It is heartening to see that government, media, community organisations and the general public are getting behind the movement to eliminate violence against women and to create a more…
Submission to the Royal Commission into Family Violence (2015)
Violence against women occurs in all Victorian communities and across all cultures. There are clear differences in the way that violence is enacted across cultures and social contexts, but no one immigrant/refugee community or culture is any more violent than…
Engaging men in violence prevention: gender equity in practice
As many of us know, the way to eliminate violence against women is to achieve gender equality. We also know that in order to end violence against women, all of us—women and men—need to work together. What is often less…
Australian Human Rights Commission Roundtable in Melbourne on increasing CALD women’s voices
In 2011 the Australian Human Rights Commission hosted a successful study tour undertaken by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women in Australia. You can read about the some of the outcomes of that tour, including the AHRC Report,…