Women, peace and security

Explore resources on the Women, Peace and Security agenda, including policy submissions and guidance from Australian civil society.

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Narrative Responses to Human Rights Abuses

In May 2013, workshops were held in Chiang Mai and Mae Sot, Thailand, with a number of women’s organisations who represent different ethnic minorities from Burma/Myanmar and who respond to human rights violations. These workshops had two key purposes. Firstly, to share existing narrative ways of working and co-develop with participants new culturally resonant methods…

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Do No Harm Video

‘Do No Harm’ explores the relationship between economic inclusion and empowerment programs and violence against women, initially in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. In 2014 we won the Twitter Award in the global 5-Minute Science Fair competition for our video on ‘Do No Harm’. Thanks to everyone who voted and shared our video.

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Triple Jeopardy Report

Cambodian women with disabilities experience multiple disadvantages resulting from the interplay between gender, disability and poverty. This participatory action research has found that women with disabilities face similar levels of sexual, physical and emotional violence by partners to non-disabled women but endure much higher levels of all forms of family violence. They suffer sexual violence…

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