ArchiveSeptember 2015

Daisy app: updated version released

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September 2015 Violence against women is unacceptable. Daisy is an app that connects women around Australia to services. Domestic and family violence affects one in three Australian women, and sexual assault affects one in five women over the age of 15. Daisy connects women who are experiencing or have experienced sexual assault, domestic and family violence to services in their state and local...

Rising Death Toll from Viral Hepatitis in Australia

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Hepatitis NSW, September 2015 On 14 September, the Kirby Institute released the HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia: Annual Surveillance Report 2015. And it made for particularly sobering reading. It is estimated that 690 people died from hepatitis C-related liver disease in 2014, which represents an increase of 146% from ten years earlier. The number of people...

Conversations with CALD women on violence against women and their children

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Hearing her voice: Report from the kitchen table conversations with culturally and linguistically diverse women on violence against women and their children  Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Social Services) 2015 From 24 October 2014 to 12 March 2015, CALD women leaders hosted 29 kitchen table conversations throughout Australia with women from more than 40 ethnic and cultural backgrounds...

Violence against women survey shows there is ‘more work to be done’

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Guardian, Wednesday 17 September 2014 15.17 AEST Many Australians believe there are circumstances where violence against women can be excused and almost one in five believe if a woman is raped while intoxicated she is partly responsible, a national survey has found. Alison Macdonald, the acting chief executive of Domestic Violence Victoria, said the report highlighted much more work was needed to...

Michigan City Settles Federal HIV-Discrimination Lawsuit

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POZ magazine, September 11, 2015 Shalandra Jones was ticketed for not disclosing her HIV status to a Dearborn police officer during a traffic stop, who said “he did not want to take any diseases home to his family”, and made repeated statements expressing his fear of being infected with HIV or other diseases after coming in contact with the woman’s earrings during his search. As a result, she...

New website to help teachers talk sex and gender with students

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Educators NZ, September 23, 2015 RainbowYOUTH has launched a new website aimed to increase understanding and support of sex, gender and sexuality diversity within year 7-13 classrooms in New Zealand. The website, Inside Out, contains free teaching resources, class guidelines and video content designed to ignite conversations. The resource has been produced in a partnership between RainbowYOUTH...

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