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Mahi a Atua - Treatment for Racism? - Community Research webinar
Responding effectively to victims of domestic violence - One-day Introductory Training
Kāiga Māopoopo: Tokelau Family Violence Prevention Training Programme
Tūranga Māori: Cook Islands Māori Family Violence Prevention Training Programme
Resource collection on strength, wisdom and wellness for advocates
Weekly Media Roundup
Job Vacancy at Family Action: Clinical Operations Manager
Lifewise Family Services Parenting Courses - Term 2 2020
Plunket Parenting Through Separation Schedule April - June 2020
Seminar: Bigging up society? Politics, policy and evidence in the British voluntary sector
Safety for Children and Young People in the Digital Age
Social Work Scope of Practice
Have your say: ComVoices State of the Sector Survey 2020
International Women's Day 2020 - resources and national action plans addressing violence against women
DVFREE Workplace: 'First Responder' Domestic Violence Training
Media report workplace sexual harassment and assault of young women in hospitality industry
Job Vacancy at ACC: Injury Prevention Partner - Permanent, Wellington
Weekly Media Roundup
Shakti: Let's Deal With It Campaign Update
Oranga Tamariki Survey for the New Information Sharing Provisions
Gender blind view of violence lets men off the hook
July 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Peter Adams writes in the Weekend Herald:
For many of us involved with violence in New Zealand, the Glenn Inquiry into child abuse and domestic violence has provided a beacon of hope for the future.
We have watched politicians and officials taking a gender-neutral stance about violence in the home for decades. Policy document after policy document have adopted terms like "family violence" and "domestic abuse", and talked in ways that imply it is "people" in general who pursue violence against vulnerable family members. It is certainly true that "people abuse people": the abuse of boys and men, of the elderly and of the disabled can be horrific and cannot be minimised.
Read the full article here.
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