🏉 Over the weekend, CAWLS Barkly Lawyers, Anisha & Mollie, participated in front of a big crowd, for the inaugural BAFL Womens match 🏃♀️💨 The girls’ team, YDU Football Club, may have been defeated by Sporties Spitfires… but our very own, Anisha, scored a goal in this history making game for the region! 💪🤩 Congratulations…
🎙️ 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…
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)
Earlier this month, CAWLS attended the Ti-Tree Women’s Safe House, where the team had the pleasure of talking to women about their money matters and providing clarification to women about domestic violence orders 🗣️ ☎️ CAWLS will be heading back to Ti-Tree on Thursday 9 September to provide a duty lawyer service at Bush Court.…
📅 Today is Day 3 of the ‘16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence’. UN Women have put together a list of 10 simple steps we can all make a difference, safely and impactfully. Step 1 : Listen to and believe survivors. Even today, too many women are prevented from reporting their experience of family…
“Women—especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women—are being misidentified as perpetrators on protection orders and the effects of this are far-reaching” This resonates strongly with the experience of our clients and CAWLS lawyers. This week, ANROWS has released a report titled “Accurately identifying the ‘person most in need of protection’ in domestic and family violence law“.…
📅 Today is Day 2 of the ‘16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence’. 🧑🤝🧑 Everyone has a role to play in eliminating gender-based violence 🌏 UN Women has put together a list of 10 simple steps we can all make a difference, safely and impactfully 👇 ✅ Listen to and believe…
CAWLS were thrilled to attend the Ntaria School NAIDOC Day Celebrations on Wednesday 11 November 2020 🖐️ Joining forces with Lutheran Community Care, the team fed more than 400+ people, with lots of many happy faces enjoying face painting, games and art 🤗 Thanks to the Ntaria School for having CAWLS Client Support Worker, Cara,…
🌭 FREE Community BBQ for Anti-Poverty Week 2020 📅 THIS Friday 16 October ⌚ 11:30am – 1:00pm 📍 CAWLS Office, Westpoint Building (next to Kmart) 👋 RSVP to our Facebook Event ➡️ https://bit.ly/34T0dMR Everyone is invited to join the team from the Central Australian Women’s Legal Service for a free lunch and catch up in…
Today is the start of Mental Health Week … a time to raise awareness of mental health & wellbeing in our community & to start the conversations that matter 🤝💛 🟣 Lifeline 📞 13 11 14 🟣 Beyondblue 📞 1300 224 636 🟣 Suicide Call Back Service 📞 1300 659 467 🟣 NT Mental Health Line 📞 1800 682 288
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