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Election 2017 - political parties' policies and family and whānau violence
ANZASW: Social Workers Day 2017 Webinar Series
Child Matters 1-Day Child Protection Workshop
Free online course on violence against women
Grandparents find challenges working with child protection and Work and Income
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Online trauma awareness training package being developed
Ministry of Justice publishes updated restorative justice framework
New Crisis Service for Sexual Harm Survivors in West Auckland
New movement Gender Equal NZ launched to address sexism and stereotypes
Women's Refuge: Politics, Parties and Family Violence
Dayspring: Parenting Programme
New E Tū Whānau resources - 'Our ancestors'
Backbone releases report on Family Court appeals and complaints
Workshop: 'Ki te Whakaora' - Sexual Violence Trauma: Towards Healing
NZ Council of Christian Social Services: Kete Kupu Issue 44
Public Health Forum - Not Inherently Vulnerable
Weekly Media Roundup
Cabinet paper and updates on development of MVCOT
Election 2017 - political parties' policies and family and whānau violence
ANZASW: Social Workers Day 2017 Webinar Series
Child Matters 1-Day Child Protection Workshop
Free online course on violence against women
Grandparents find challenges working with child protection and Work and Income
Job Vacancy at MPHS: Relationships and Programmes Manager
Job Vacancy at Healthy Families Waitakere: Activator
SSPA Quick Update
NZCCSS: Policy Watch Newsletter
Pub Quiz for Shakti
Weekly Media Roundup
Online trauma awareness training package being developed
Ministry of Justice publishes updated restorative justice framework
New Crisis Service for Sexual Harm Survivors in West Auckland
New movement Gender Equal NZ launched to address sexism and stereotypes
Women's Refuge: Politics, Parties and Family Violence
Dayspring: Parenting Programme
New E Tū Whānau resources - 'Our ancestors'
Backbone releases report on Family Court appeals and complaints
Workshop: 'Ki te Whakaora' - Sexual Violence Trauma: Towards Healing
NZ Council of Christian Social Services: Kete Kupu Issue 44
Public Health Forum - Not Inherently Vulnerable
Weekly Media Roundup
Cabinet paper and updates on development of MVCOT
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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