Taking action to overcome violence : one-day conference report & proceedings held in Auckland, 25 November 2006
Taking action to overcome violence : one-day conference report & proceedings held in Auckland, 25 November 2006
Pacific Women's Watch (NZ) Inc
- Auckland, New Zealand : Pacific Women's Watch (NZ), 2006
- 54 pages ; 30 cm.
Creating policy to overcome violence Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, Associate Minister of Pacific Island Affairs and Social Development Relationship between international obligations and social policy Joy Liddicoat, Human Rights Commissioner The Domestic Violence Act 1995 - Are women still the victims? Peter Boshier, Principal Family Court Judge Supporting victims - The critical need Heather Henare, National Manager, National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges Assessing prevalence, developing prevention strategies Janet Fanslow, PhD, School of Population Health, University of Auckland Poverty and violence Associate Professor Mike O'Brien, Child Poverty Action Group What are the roots of cultural violence against refugees and migrant women and children in New Zealand? Gary Poole, CEO, Refugees as Survivors (RAS), Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre Violence against women and children Senior Sergeant Alan Rowland,Youth Services Coordinator, Auckland City, New Zealand Police
An event to honour the United Nations Secretary-General's special study on violence against women provided the opportunity to engage with an audience in Auckland to take forward a study of international significance that was very relevant to the local community. The direct link to the work of the United Nations was made real for the 120 women and men of many cultures who attended.
The aim was to hold a conferenve that could be used as a model for use nationally and regionally based onthe one-day conference held last March by the New York NGO Committee on the Stautus of Women for participants at the 2005 session of the Commission of the Status of Women. The objective was to offer an event that could be replicated easily in any place on a subject that is a critical issue in every country without exception. (From the Foreword). The longer printed papers are detailed above. Record #6105
AFVC
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INTERVENTION
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
MIGRANTS
POVERTY
PREVALENCE
PREVENTION
REFUGEES
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
NEW ZEALAND
362.8292 TAK
Creating policy to overcome violence Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, Associate Minister of Pacific Island Affairs and Social Development Relationship between international obligations and social policy Joy Liddicoat, Human Rights Commissioner The Domestic Violence Act 1995 - Are women still the victims? Peter Boshier, Principal Family Court Judge Supporting victims - The critical need Heather Henare, National Manager, National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges Assessing prevalence, developing prevention strategies Janet Fanslow, PhD, School of Population Health, University of Auckland Poverty and violence Associate Professor Mike O'Brien, Child Poverty Action Group What are the roots of cultural violence against refugees and migrant women and children in New Zealand? Gary Poole, CEO, Refugees as Survivors (RAS), Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre Violence against women and children Senior Sergeant Alan Rowland,Youth Services Coordinator, Auckland City, New Zealand Police
An event to honour the United Nations Secretary-General's special study on violence against women provided the opportunity to engage with an audience in Auckland to take forward a study of international significance that was very relevant to the local community. The direct link to the work of the United Nations was made real for the 120 women and men of many cultures who attended.
The aim was to hold a conferenve that could be used as a model for use nationally and regionally based onthe one-day conference held last March by the New York NGO Committee on the Stautus of Women for participants at the 2005 session of the Commission of the Status of Women. The objective was to offer an event that could be replicated easily in any place on a subject that is a critical issue in every country without exception. (From the Foreword). The longer printed papers are detailed above. Record #6105
AFVC
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INTERVENTION
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
MIGRANTS
POVERTY
PREVALENCE
PREVENTION
REFUGEES
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
NEW ZEALAND
362.8292 TAK