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Weekly Media Roundup
New from NZFVC: Ethnic perspectives on family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
Workshops: Responding to Youth Suicide
Shakti: Invitation to Forced Marriage Training
Thousands contact national sexual harm helpline in first year
Shine Training and Workshops
Job Vacancies at MOJ: Court Victim Advisor
Term 2 Courses and Workshops at the AWC
Group Facilitation Training Intermediate with Fay Lilian
Workshop: Working with parents' anger: Taking the heat off the child
Extra Month for Submissions on the review of the Charities Act 2005
Weekly Media Roundup
Oversight of the care of our children strengthened
Consultation open on Oranga Tamariki Legislation Bill
Workshop: Helping Kids deal with Anxiety
Shakti Youth: Future Without Violence Community Workshop
Te Ata seeks new members to join The Board of Trustees
Brainwave Review - Autumn 2019
Have Your Say: Summary Report
Child poverty statistics: Year ended June 2018
New Zealand Council Christian Social Services: Policy Watch
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust: March - April 2019 Newsletter
Exhibition: Shifting Landscapes
Weekly Media Roundup
Urgent Notice from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse
New from NZFVC: Ethnic perspectives on family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
Workshops: Responding to Youth Suicide
Shakti: Invitation to Forced Marriage Training
Thousands contact national sexual harm helpline in first year
Shine Training and Workshops
Job Vacancies at MOJ: Court Victim Advisor
Term 2 Courses and Workshops at the AWC
Group Facilitation Training Intermediate with Fay Lilian
Workshop: Working with parents' anger: Taking the heat off the child
Extra Month for Submissions on the review of the Charities Act 2005
Weekly Media Roundup
Oversight of the care of our children strengthened
Consultation open on Oranga Tamariki Legislation Bill
Workshop: Helping Kids deal with Anxiety
Shakti Youth: Future Without Violence Community Workshop
Te Ata seeks new members to join The Board of Trustees
Brainwave Review - Autumn 2019
Have Your Say: Summary Report
Child poverty statistics: Year ended June 2018
New Zealand Council Christian Social Services: Policy Watch
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust: March - April 2019 Newsletter
Exhibition: Shifting Landscapes
Weekly Media Roundup
Urgent Notice from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse
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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