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Weekly Media Roundup
ComVoices: 2020 State of the Sector Survey Snapshot
Preventing and Addressing Elder Abuse during COVID-19 - Virtual Briefing
Mental Wellness and Community Collective Care in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic
Disclosures - Training webinar
INSPIRE: Seven strategies for ending violence against children
Weekly Media Roundup
MSD Family Violence and Sexual Violence Service Provider Update
White Ribbon 2020 and 16 days of activism against gender based violence
Pasefika Proud ethnic specific family violence prevention training 2020-21
SSPA: Learn More About Responding to Section 7AA
Child Protection for the Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector: training webinar
RFP for resources to support new Relationships and Sexuality Education guidelines
Information sharing: training webinar
Online Community Seminar: Preventing the Removal of Infants by the State
Government and NGO interim CEDAW reports set out work to be done
Social Determinants of Health Webinar: COVID-19, social determinants and violence
Weekly Media Roundup
New Minister for Prevention of Family & Sexual Violence, other positions announced
Kia whiti tonu - "To shine brightly"
Latest research report from Growing Up in New Zealand released
Free Young Mum Support Program next intake 2021
Aotearoa Sustainable Development Goals Summit Series Hui #1: See the Change
Te Kupenga: 2018
Cumulative Jeopardy: What works in working with maltreating families?
ComVoices: 2020 State of the Sector Survey Snapshot
Preventing and Addressing Elder Abuse during COVID-19 - Virtual Briefing
Mental Wellness and Community Collective Care in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic
Disclosures - Training webinar
INSPIRE: Seven strategies for ending violence against children
Weekly Media Roundup
MSD Family Violence and Sexual Violence Service Provider Update
White Ribbon 2020 and 16 days of activism against gender based violence
Pasefika Proud ethnic specific family violence prevention training 2020-21
SSPA: Learn More About Responding to Section 7AA
Child Protection for the Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector: training webinar
RFP for resources to support new Relationships and Sexuality Education guidelines
Information sharing: training webinar
Online Community Seminar: Preventing the Removal of Infants by the State
Government and NGO interim CEDAW reports set out work to be done
Social Determinants of Health Webinar: COVID-19, social determinants and violence
Weekly Media Roundup
New Minister for Prevention of Family & Sexual Violence, other positions announced
Kia whiti tonu - "To shine brightly"
Latest research report from Growing Up in New Zealand released
Free Young Mum Support Program next intake 2021
Aotearoa Sustainable Development Goals Summit Series Hui #1: See the Change
Te Kupenga: 2018
Cumulative Jeopardy: What works in working with maltreating families?
Power of Technology to help us fight family and domestic violence
July 31, 2013 at 1:39 PM
The Deputy Secretary-General of the UN Jan Eliasson has spoken of harnessing the power of technology to prevent violence against women and girls. Case in point was of the young Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai who was shot by Taliban for going to school. Thousands of tweets were recorded from around the globe after she spoke at a Youth Assembly held in the UN.
Close to home, Making Waves bulletin shared a news piece last week of a domestic violence survivor who resorted to Facebook to seek help and alert police to her own trauma. Her partner had beaten her and left her home cut off from any means of her communication.
You can download and read the UN news release by the New Head of UN Women here
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