Why women only services? 🤔♀️ … because, 71% of domestic family violence assaults in the Northern Territory are committed by a current or former intimate partner 😔🙅♀️ ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS) ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service (KWILS)
🎙️ This week on ‘Sisters in Law‘, our Tennant Creek based lawyer, Anisha Hegde, dialled in to join us in the studio virtually to share how services collaborate across the Barkly region to address and remove barriers to access justice ⚖️ The four Barkly legal services – CAWLS, CAAFLU, NAAJA & NTLAC – have been…
👮 Police in the Northern Territory are less likely to pursue a sexual assault report than police in any other state or territory… 🚨 🔎➡️ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-20/sexual-assaults-reported-to-nt-police-least-likely-to-be-pursued/11917478 ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS) ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service (KWILS)
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…
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