Eliminating Violence Against Women: A Handbook for the Indo-Pacific Region
Violence against women (VAW) is one of the most pervasive human rights violations of our time.
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Recommendations From Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations to Mainstream Inquiries on Family Violence: It's Time to Act
This article examines recommendations from Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) in submissions to Australian federal parliamentary inquiries that considered family violence.
Readiness for a trial: Challenges evaluating interventions at the intersection of domestic abuse and substance use
Although the association between substance use and domestic abuse is well documented, integrated program responses to promote the safety of families living with both issues are relatively rare.
Child sexual abuse victim-survivor experiences of disclosure over time: Perspectives from an Australian qualitative study
Child sexual abuse (CSA) affects over a quarter of Australians, yet many victim-survivors never disclose their experiences or do so decades later. Responses to disclosure strongly influence safety, wellbeing, and long-term healing. Disclosure is increasingly understood as a gradual, lifelong process shaped by personal, social and institutional factors. Improving professional and community responses requires a deeper understanding of victim-survivors' experiences.
Conceptualising Climate Violence: A Systematic Scoping Review
The term ‘climate violence’ is increasingly used to describe the intersection of climate change and violence. In the research literature, climate violence has been conceptualised in varied ways, reflected in emergent and intersecting definitions and descriptions.
Children’s experience of surviving the web of exploitation
Perpetrators are frequently offering children monetary resources to self-produce child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). There has been little exploration of how victim children make sense of this form of exploitation, which is frequently facilitated by technology.
Male Perpetrator Interventions for Domestic and Family Violence in the Indo-Pacific: A Scoping Review
A scoping review mapping 42 domestic and family violence perpetrator interventions across 14 Indo-Pacific countries - revealing a sector more innovative than its evidence base reflects, and a significant gap in programs reaching marginalised men.
Suicides and Claimed Suicides in the Context of Domestic and Family Violence and Coercive Control: Legal and Policy Responses
Increasingly, suicide is being linked with histories of domestic and family violence. While some abusive partners kill their victim in a context of domestic and family violence and then claim it was suicide, in other cases the cause of death may be less directly connected to the abusive partner.
Acceptability of Stop It Now! Australia: perceptions of service users, police and practitioners
This paper reports evaluation research of a pilot of Stop It Now! Australia, a child sexual abuse perpetration-prevention programme. While the service continues, this paper relates to a 13-month trial period between September 2022 and September 2023.