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Family and sexual violence service provider update - MSD, June 2018
Talking Trouble Workshops
Child Matters: 5-Day Programme in Child Protection
Govt appoints expert panel to welfare review; welfare, poverty and violence
Fundraisers Forum
Rape Prevention Education is looking for Board Members
Te Kupenga 2018: Survey of Māori well-being begins
Family violence prevention leaders recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Suffrage125 to be celebrated across NZ
Safe & Together Model CORE Training
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Elder Abuse Awareness Week 15-22 June 2018 - It's OK to ask for help
Mental Health Inquiry Panel – West Auckland Session
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Programme: Parenting Through Separation
Vuvale Sautu - Fiji Family Violence Training
Training: Responding effectively to victims of domestic violence
Webinar: Responding to disclosures of child abuse and neglect
Report: Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in New Zealand Children
Severe Trauma & Stress Recovery Workshops
FREE seminar - Protection Orders as a Response to Domestic Violence
Weekly Media Roundup
Government starting work to develop Child Wellbeing Strategy
Lifewise Term 3 Parenting Courses
Family and sexual violence service provider update - MSD, June 2018
Talking Trouble Workshops
Child Matters: 5-Day Programme in Child Protection
Govt appoints expert panel to welfare review; welfare, poverty and violence
Fundraisers Forum
Rape Prevention Education is looking for Board Members
Te Kupenga 2018: Survey of Māori well-being begins
Family violence prevention leaders recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Suffrage125 to be celebrated across NZ
Safe & Together Model CORE Training
Weekly Media Roundup
Elder Abuse Awareness Week 15-22 June 2018 - It's OK to ask for help
Mental Health Inquiry Panel – West Auckland Session
Whāngaia Bulletin
Programme: Parenting Through Separation
Vuvale Sautu - Fiji Family Violence Training
Training: Responding effectively to victims of domestic violence
Webinar: Responding to disclosures of child abuse and neglect
Report: Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in New Zealand Children
Severe Trauma & Stress Recovery Workshops
FREE seminar - Protection Orders as a Response to Domestic Violence
Weekly Media Roundup
Government starting work to develop Child Wellbeing Strategy
Lifewise Term 3 Parenting Courses
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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