Why women only services? 🤔♀️ … because, economic dependence on an abuser is a major barrier to leaving domestic & family violence situations 💸😔 ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service
Community attitudes towards violence against women remain problematic ⚖️😔 The ‘2017 National Community Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women’ Survey highlighted that many young people STILL hold attitudes supportive of violence against women 🤯 📖 Read the full report via ➡️ https://ncas.anrows.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2017NCAS-Youth-SubReport.pdf ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine…
Why women only services? 🤔♀️ … because, 45% of young people think women exaggerate gender inequality 😐 ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service
⚠️📖 This is your LAST CHANCE to buy a seat to the ‘Identifying & Responding to Family Violence’ training, hosted by CAWLS, this Friday 25 March … only 5 tickets remain! 😱🎫 This training aims to strengthen understandings and provide an insight into legal responses to domestic & family violence across Central Australia 📕 🗣️…
Most women in custody have experienced domestic & family violence ⚖️😔 ‘ANROWS Research Synthesis’ shows there are well-established links between women’s experiences of domestic, family and sexual violence and imprisonment 🚨 Women can become caught in cycles of imprisonment and experiencing violence. Violence increases the risk and effects of imprisonment … and imprisonment increases the…
Why women only services? 🤔♀️ … because, the majority of women in prison have experienced family and domestic violence 😔 ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service
⚠️ Youpla (formerly trading as Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund or ACBF) funeral insurers have gone into liquidation ⚠️ This is going to have a HUGE financial impact on thousands of First Nations People – with CAWLS already seeing clients who have been affected 😥 People who thought that they were doing the right thing by…
📃 The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the ‘Prisoners in Australia Report’ last year, showing that within 12 months, the number of female prisoners had increased by 37% 📈😧 🔎➡️ https://ntindependent.com.au/news-brief-prisoner-rates-in-the-nt-increased ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Information & Legal Service
Why women only services? 🤔 ♀️ … because, in the Northern Territory, there has been a 37% increase in female prisoners over the last 12 month 🚨 ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service ⚖️ Katherine Women’s Legal Service
🎥 Last week, our CAWLS team were delighted to be invited as guests by the NT Working Women’s Centre, to their IWD celebratory movie screening of ‘Women of Steel‘. 🎞️ ‘Women of Steel‘ is a documentary detailing the strength, resilience and power of a group of women, who fought for women’s equal access to employment…
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