Why women only services? 🤔♀️ … because, the rate of sexual assault in the Northern Territory is 50% higher than the national rate … and 91% of sexual assault victims are women 📈🙅♀️😡 ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS) ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service (KWILS)
♀️ ALL women deserve an equal future … free from stigma, stereotypes & violence ✊ 🎟️ Join CAWLS and other local services, this Saturday from 5pm at the Women’s Museum of Australia, for the ‘Equal Futures Fair‘ – a night to celebrate “Women in Leadership : Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” 🌏…
📈 Family violence continues to cost Australians $22 billion per year … and the cost is rising 🤯 The key to halting the escalating cost is primary and secondary prevention and fully funded support for victims who continue to bear the primary financial burden ✊ 🔎➡️ https://pwc.to/3IyNSQC ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) ⚖️…
Why women only services? 🤔♀️ Because violence against women and their children costs Australia $22 billion on an annual basis 🤯💸 ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS) ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service (KWILS)
The Northern Territory continues to have the highest rate of domestic & family homicides in the country 😡🙅♀️ The Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group have called for responsible reporting on the stories of women murdered in the Northern Territory ✊ 🔎➡️ https://ab.co/3IyKzsO ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service…
Why women only services? 🤔♀️ … because the Northern Territory has the highest rates of domestic and family violence assaults and the majority of victim survivors are women & girls 🙅♀️ ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS) ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service (KWILS)
📣 Over the next six weeks – and in the lead up to International Women’s Day 2022 – the Northern Territory’s three women’s legal services will share core reasons why specialist women’s legal services continue to be needed 💪 … we would take 61 days – much like the 61 additional days from the end…
🎙️ This week on ‘Sisters in Law‘, the Northern Territory Program Manager for the Senior Relationships Services at Relationships Australia, Lesley Merett, spoke with show host, Sarah Edwards about Elder Abuse. A big thank you to Lesley and CAWLS lawyer, Sarah, for an informative and insightful discussion… 💭 ☎️ If you or someone you know…
Spaces filling fast! 😱 📖 Get in quick to secure a spot at our upcoming ‘Identifying and Responding to Family Violence’ training, to be held in March 2022. 🗣️ CAWLS and other local services providers are offering a full-day training where participants will: 📁 Strengthen understandings of family violence 📁 Gain an understanding of legal…
CAWLS is thrilled to be partnering with other local organisations to celebrate the strength, power & resilience of women in Central Australia, with the 2022 International Women’s Day ‘Equal Futures’ Fair ✊✨ Join us for an evening of live music, food and market stalls, interviews, a panel discussion, smoking ceremony and more. 📅 Saturday 5…
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