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,” ...
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 ...
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!
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 ...
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 – ...
