Australian researchers urge prioritising evidence-based solutions and incorporating Indigenous experiences to tackle rising gender-based violence cases.
To rightfully claim the minute’s silence meant more than virtue signalling, the AFL must remove the boys’ club barriers that still pervade football.
A domestic violence disclosure scheme is a resource people can check to find out if a particular person has a documented history of domestic violence, but how well does it work?
With the media and legal bar set so high seven years after the global awakening of #MeToo, it’s an ongoing battle for female victim-survivors to provide bulletproof evidence in the contested spaces of “she said/he said”.
The federal government’s announcement of $3.5 million to fund a healthy masculinities project trial is promising, but lacks detail on precisely how the funds will be used, and what will inform the programs.
A unified approach from journalism scholars in the Global North and Global South is needed to promote more gender-sensitive, solutions-driven, and victim-survivor-centred reporting about violence against women.
While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.
A study of data from more than 5000 Indonesian women has found that marrying early – particularly by age 18 – leads to higher depression.
While it’s positive to see recognition from the Commonwealth government that the existing Family Violence Provision safety net needs changing, piecemeal intervention won’t go far enough to address underlying structural conditions that undermine women’s searches for safety.
Sexual violence and family violence intersect, but little is known about how responses to perpetrators address intimate partner sexual violence.
New research reveals that more than half of all Australians have experienced technology-facilitated abuse.
The alarmingly high rates of violence faced by pregnant women in Vanuatu, and the toll it’s taking on their physical and psychological health, demand closer attention.
Sexual violence, a weapon of war recognised by many governments and international institutions, impacts thousands of people during and after conflicts. But how widespread and systematic it is largely remains a mystery.
A key part of the budget's focus on women was a funding boost to help stop domestic violence, but is it enough?
A sexual education program in a Mexico City school is shifting harmful beliefs and behaviours related to gender, sexuality and relationships.
Gender equality for all women, and a world free of discrimination, is far from being reached, even in the world's most advantaged countries.
The pandemic is likely to intensify the harmful effects of child marriage, increasing exposure to violence, and decreasing access to healthcare and support networks.
A new research project is aiming to better understand the extent, nature and impact of rising tech-facilitated abuse.
Coronavirus has meant more time at home, more time online and more image-based abuse.
Gender competence in healthcare can be a powerful tool in improving women's wellbeing – particularly mental health.
A glaring gap in Australia's migration system is failing victims of gendered violence.
We need to think about the problems that men and women face not as competing priorities but as part of the same toxic social problem.
Men’s violence continues to threaten, restrict and harm the lives of Victorian women at alarming levels.
The Turnbull government's budget has failed to match its expressed desire to take violence against women seriously.
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