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Gender-based violence

Alternative labels
Violence against women
Gender based violence
VAWG
Violence against women and girls
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Broader terms
Violence
Current term
Gender-based violence
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Gender, technology and trafficking in persons: women’s experiences of forced criminality in South‑East Asia’s cyber‑scam centres


Over the past decade, cyber-scam centres dedicated to running online scams at a massive scale have proliferated across areas of South-East Asia. These centres themselves have become sites of significant exploitation. This research sought to understand women and girls’ experiences of trafficking into cyber-scam centres for forced criminality in the South East Asian region.
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Disengagement from online misogynistic incel communities and its implications for attitudes to gendered violence


Online communities of ‘incels’ (involuntary celibates) have become synonymous with the promotion of misogyny and violence against women. This study used a qualitative survey of self-identified former incels to determine motivations for disengagement, strategies to facilitate disengagement, and whether and how their attitudes towards violence against women changed with disengagement.
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2026 Status of women report card


The report card is an important mechanism for taking stock of where Australia is making progress towards gender equality, and where challenges still remain. It presents both updated and new data points for the following areas: attitudes and norms; gender-based violence; unpaid and paid care; economic equality and security; health; and leadership, representation and decision...
Strategy

Our ways – strong ways – our voices: national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander plan to end family, domestic and sexual violence 2026–2036


A 10-year national strategy that will guide actions towards ending violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children. The plan is grounded in culture and lived experiences. Woven throughout the plan are eight principles that underpin change based on self‑determination, truth-telling, lived experience, healing, systemic transformation, intersectionality, accountability and Indigenous data sovereignty.
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Report card: on the Northern Territory Governments DFSV strategy 2025–2028 as a response to the Coroner's report


A report card assessing progress against the recommendations made by the Northern Territory Coroner in 2025 following the inquest into the domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) related deaths of four Aboriginal women. The purpose of the report is to strengthen accountability, prioritise progress and support a coordinated Territory-wide response.