Video
The search found 351 results in 0.067 seconds.
Search results
Discussion paper
364What is the role of men in addressing men’s violence against women? In recent years, there have been numerous articles, discussion papers, books, conferences and government policy statements advocating the greater involvement of men in working against men’s violence and towards gender equality. The involvement...
Report
12This Interim Report makes recommendations to confer on members of Victoria Police a power to remove, hold and detain persons pending an application for an interim intervention order. As the initial response by police to a family violence incident is particularly important in the process...
Report
146Several different systems of investigation into violent death exist in Australia, such as those conducted by the police, coroners and the National Homicide Monitoring Program. However, none of these look at domestic and family violence-related fatalities specifically, or analyse a group of domestic homicides occurring...
Report
29The Advocacy Information Service has produced a framework to address violence, called A framework for influencing change – responding to violence against women with disabilities, 2007-2009 (PDF 173KB) The Framework outlines 12 key strategies to guide the advocacy work of the VWDN Advocacy Information Service,...
Report
133This paper outlines a framework designed to provide a sound theoretical and evidence base to support future government, community and corporate sector activity to prevent violence against women. It identifies priority strategies, settings and population targets. In 2006 the Victorian government identified the need to...
Report
38The presentation by Veena Poonacha, Professor and Director, Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, India, begins by describing the Self Help Groups (SHGs) movement and will subsequently narrate the struggles of the women in a tribal community in the heart of the...
Report
425Whilst adolescent violence toward parents is an emerging trend internationally, little research has been undertaken in Australia that examines male adolescent violence to their mothers. This research examined male adolescents’ abuse and violence to their sole parent mothers. It gathered qualitative data from ten women,...
Report
83The International Violence Against Women Survey was conducted across Australia between December 2002 and June 2003. A total of 6677 women participated in the survey, and provided information on their experiences of physical and sexual violence.
Jenny Mouzos and Toni Makkai describe the type...
Report
92This document is a a review of the communication components of Australian and overseas public education and social marketing campaigns aimed at reducing violence against women. It focuses on campaigns conducted since 1995 that included a primary objective of influencing 'community attitudes' towards violence against...
Report
73Most Victorian women and men, regardless of their socio-economic status or cultural background, did not hold ‘violence-supportive’ attitudes on many of the measures used in this VicHealth survey on community attitudes to violence against women. Attitudes had improved on most measures since 1995. Nonetheless there...