Gender equity advocacy

Auckland Women’s Centre coordinates Coalition for the Safety of Women and Children. Since 2006, the Coalition has been bringing together violence-prevention organisations and advocates who work together toward the vision of an Aotearoa New Zealand free from violence against women and children. Members (listed below) share frontline best practice and collectively develop high-quality, experience-informed, research-informed advice for decision-makers and communities locally and nationally to eliminate sexual violence and family violence.

Working to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and grounded in an intersectional understanding of violence, the Coalition recognises that tangata Māori, Pacific peoples, disabled people, takatāpui, trans and gender-diverse people, and migrant and refugee communities face disproportionate harm from sexual violence and family violence.

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• Aotearoa Women’s Watch
• Auckland Women’s Centre
• Eastern Women’s Refuge
• Good Shepherd
• Dr Debbie Hager, Domestic Violence Expert – disabled community
• HELP support for sexual abuse survivors
• Hestia Women’s Refuge
• Hohou te Rongo Kahukura
• Inner City Women’s Group
• Kia Haumaru – Personal Safety Education
• National Council of Women, Auckland
• North Shore Family Violence Prevention Coordinator
• NZ Human Rights Centre
• Rape Prevention Education – Whakatu Mauri
• Respect
• Rodney Women’s Centre
• Shakti Community Council
• SHINE Safer Homes in NZ Everyday
• Te Ārai Roa Manaaki – Living Without Violence Waiheke
• The Backbone Collective
• Dr Alison Towns, Domestic Violence Expert and Researcher
• Women’s Health Action Trust
• Women’s Refuge – Tāmaki Makaurau
• YWCA, Auckland