Posts in “Family Violence” category

Aotearoa Free From Stalking Submission Guide

Let’s make the new anti-stalking law as good as possible Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui! We want a law to help survivors and whānau, and prevent stalking – this submission guide advises on how you can help. Submissions and Parliament’s informal anonymous survey are now open on the Crimes Legislation (Stalking and Harassment) Amendment ...

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Posted: January 29, 2025Categories: , ,

Public or anonymous? – options to have your say on the anti-stalking Bill

Ways you can inform the anti-stalking law We are encouraging people to inform the Crimes Legislation (Harassment and Stalking) Amendment Bill, particularly if they feel able and safe to share real-life stories of stalking which are relevant to the parts of the Bill which need to change (click here for our submission content guide). There ...

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Posted: January 28, 2025Categories: , ,

“Bait-and-switch” stalking bill would “water-down” protection from harassment

Release from Aotearoa Free From Stalking The government is set to “water-down” protection from harassment in a new law supposed to keep people safer from stalking, say violence-prevention experts. “While we support the bill overall, the government’s plan would make it harder to free some whānau from the terror of serious intrusions into their lives,” ...

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Posted: December 10, 2024Categories: , ,

Coalition for the Safety of Women and Children Welcomes Stalking Bill

11 November 2024 The aim of the “Aotearoa Free From Stalking” campaign by the Coalition for the Safety of Women and Children is an Aotearoa where women, their whānau and all of us can happily and confidently go about our lives, caring for each other, free from the distress of stalking. So we’re pleased a ...

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Posted: November 12, 2024Categories: , ,

#SafetyNotStalking: Open Letter and Petition

To access our Open Letter to the Minister of Justice, click here.   This open letter was published on 20 May 2024. If you wish to support this ongoing campaign, please sign our #SafetyNotStalking ActionStation petition. Kia ora! Thank you for your interest!

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Posted: May 20, 2024Categories: , , ,

A feminist critque of the Government’s latest budget

The Budget – how the government spends its money, and what commentators and opposition parties say about it in the following days – is an interesting reflection of the values of the country.  This year, the government allocated just under $74 million to prevent and respond to family violence.  This included $9 million to provide ...

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Posted: June 19, 2023Categories: , ,

A way through the thicket

In order to effectively respond to social ills, we need to understand their key contributing factors. The key drivers of family violence include gender inequity, colonisation and ongoing colonisation. Recognition by the Government  that these are the main causal factors for family violence – and that family violence involves long-term patterns of coercive control – ...

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Posted: June 8, 2021Categories: ,

Keeping summer festivals safe

Our youth coordinator Gabriella Brayne reports on her Consent Club leadership work. The Consent Club is a restorative-oriented, peer support system that works at festivals to promote a culture of consent. Our mahi has three focuses: education through kōrero and wānanga for festival goers; training volunteers to practice survivor-focussed, non-confrontational bystander intervention; and dealing with ...

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Posted: February 22, 2020Categories: , , ,