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Weekly Media Roundup
'Safe to Talk' sexual harm and violence helpline launched nationwide
Workshop: Engaging with Trauma
What are the Important dates for COGS Funding in 2018?
Parent Aid Waitakere: On-Call Casual Fieldworkers Wanted
Government appoints panel to review Whānau Ora
Developmental differences in children who have experienced adversity
2018 Like Minds, Like Mine Community Grants Fund
Free Wellbeing Support Groups
UN Committee reports on economic, social and cultural rights in New Zealand
Term 2 courses at the Auckland Women's Centre
Weekly Media Roundup
The Fono Community Service Open Day
Dayspring Trust Term 2 Programme
Trauma Informed, Outcome-Focused Workshop
Gender Attitudes Survey
Workshop: Working with Clients from a Refugee Background
Job Vacancy at Taranaki Safe Families Trust: Co-Ordinator
Pasefika Proud: Samoan Family Violence Training
Massey Community Fund
Open Door Breakfast on Homelessness
WDHB Health Excellence Awards: Vote for Waitakere Health Link!
Law Commission seeking submissions on Evidence Act and abortion law reform
Weekly Media Roundup
SSPA Alert: Social Workers and Pay Equity
'Safe to Talk' sexual harm and violence helpline launched nationwide
Workshop: Engaging with Trauma
What are the Important dates for COGS Funding in 2018?
Parent Aid Waitakere: On-Call Casual Fieldworkers Wanted
Government appoints panel to review Whānau Ora
Developmental differences in children who have experienced adversity
2018 Like Minds, Like Mine Community Grants Fund
Free Wellbeing Support Groups
UN Committee reports on economic, social and cultural rights in New Zealand
Term 2 courses at the Auckland Women's Centre
Weekly Media Roundup
The Fono Community Service Open Day
Dayspring Trust Term 2 Programme
Trauma Informed, Outcome-Focused Workshop
Gender Attitudes Survey
Workshop: Working with Clients from a Refugee Background
Job Vacancy at Taranaki Safe Families Trust: Co-Ordinator
Pasefika Proud: Samoan Family Violence Training
Massey Community Fund
Open Door Breakfast on Homelessness
WDHB Health Excellence Awards: Vote for Waitakere Health Link!
Law Commission seeking submissions on Evidence Act and abortion law reform
Weekly Media Roundup
SSPA Alert: Social Workers and Pay Equity
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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