Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse - The Clearinghouse is a national organisation, providing high quality information about domestic and family violence issues and practice.
Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria - DVRCV aims to prevent family violence and promote respectful relationships. We aim to: Lead debate and promote social change; Strengthen the community and service system response to violence against women and their children, from primary prevention to recovery.
Domestic Violence Victoria Inc. (DV Vic) - is a value driven peak advocacy organisation committed to the rights of women and children to live free of violence. It comprises a membership of Women's family/domestic violence services operating across the state of Victoria.
Ipswich Women's Centre Against Domestic Violence - Domestic Violence (IWCADV) is dedicated to work towards the abolition of all forms of violence against women and children through the provision of services.
Million Women Rise march against domestic violence - London - Hundreds of women marched through Central London to a rally in Trafalgar Square. The march was organised by the group Million Women Rise and is an annual women-only march in protest of male violence against women and children.
Women's Health Goulburn North East is a dynamic, independent, feminist organisation committed to improving the health and wellbeing of women in the Goulburn Valley and North East Victoria. Our vision is equality for women, through challenging inequity and embracing diversity. Our work is underpinned by a social model of health which recognises that a complex array of factors influence a woman’s sense of self, security and wellbeing. We respect and affirm diversity among women.
Women's Domestic Violence Crisis Service - The Women's Domestic Violence Crisis Service is the Victorian State-wide service for women experiencing violence and abuse from a partner or ex-partner, another family member or someone else you are close to. The WDVCS is staffed by women and you can call confidentially 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter - Feminist allies meet for roundtable discussions at Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter annual public conference for the Memorial of the Montreal Massacre.
FAMILY LAW ISSUES
Women's Safety After Separation - This website aims to provide information to women facing separation, particularly where there is violence and abuse. The National Abuse Free Contact Campaign has been developed in partnership with the Women's Safety After Separation project. Supported by a coalition of interested groups, individuals and organisations, this campaign seeks to address the issues that women and their children face when escaping violence and abuse.
Justice for Children - give children a choice and a voice - what Justice for Children is trying to do - We want to fix the family law situation in Australia so that children are treated fairly and kept safe and all participants in the family law process are treated with respect, given correct and relevant information and allowed a voice which is listened to and considered with care and compassion.
Family Law Courts - The Family Court’s Best Practice Principles were first developed as part of the Family Court’s Family Violence Strategy in March 2009. Those principles have since been revised and were launched by the Commonwealth Attorney-General on 19 July 2011.
FEMINISM
Andrea Dworkin - April 9, 2006 is the one-year anniversary of Andrea's death. "I began this letter in desire; I end in anger. I dream that love without tyranny is possible." Andrea Dworkin, 1978 from First Love
"I wanted instead to write books that were fire and ice, wind sweeping the earth. I wanted to write books that, once experienced, could not be forgotten, books that would be cherished as we cherish the most exquisite light we have ever seen." Andrea Dworkin, 1978 from First Love
Coalition for a Feminist Agenda - We are a coalition of feminist women committed to working with like-minded others to create a new and fairer global agenda, with women's voices at its centre.
We believe that a feminist analysis is essential to developing an agenda which can deliver justice and human rights for all.
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Victoria) - The Federation is the peak body for over 50 Victorian community legal centres (CLCs). CLCs are independent community organisations that provide free legal services to the public. We focus on helping clients who face economic and social disadvantage and who have nowhere else to go for help.
PORNOGRAPHY, SEXUAL EXPLOITATION & VIOLENCE
Collective Shout - is a new grassroots campaigns movement mobilising and equipping individuals and groups to target corporations, advertisers, marketers and media which objectify women and sexualise girls to sell products and services.
Stop Porn Culture - Do you ever feel overwhelmed by pornography? While mainstream pop culture grows increasingly pornographic, the pornography industry produces hardcore material that is both more overtly cruel toward women and more widely accepted than ever. Stop Porn Culture! is a group for those willing to ask these questions – activists and academics, young people and parents, organizers and ordinary people. We are no longer willing to accept the ways the pornography industry has pushed its way into our lives, distorting our conceptions of sex and sexuality. We are ready to fight back!
The Industrial Vagina - The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade by: Sheila Jeffreys. The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to become very profitable legitimate market sectors that are being legalised and decriminalised by governments.
Sexual Harassment in Australia - Despite legal prohibition, sexual harassment is a persistent workplace issue with considerable costs for individuals and organisations. Yet there remain significant gaps in knowledge about effective prevention and responses to the problem.
SEXUAL TRAFFICKING
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women is a feminist human rights nongovernmental organisation that works internationally and nationally to oppose all forms of sexual exploitation.
SINGLE MOTHERS
National Council For Single Mothers and Their Children Inc - Single Mothers - Campaigning for the rights of single mothers and their children - Committed to improving the social conditions for single and unmarried mothers.
Single mum - is an established single mother information website that provides Australian single mums with the latest relevant news, help links, support events, studies and products. The site features popular several single mum directories, including a new Family Lawyer Directory.
Single Mother Forum - is a online forum where thousands of Australian single mothers meet to participate in the busy and supportive community. Forum topics include Family Law, Centrelink, Child Support, relationships, parenting and shopping - just to name just a few!
Council of Single Mothers and their Children, Victoria - Run by and for single mothers, CSMC operates a Victoria wide telephone information, support and referral line. We have been committed to improving the conditions of single mothers and their families for over 40 years, through public advocacy, research and the representation of single mother issues.
WOMEN & CHILDREN AS VICTIMS OF CRIME
Vocal - a registered charity has been fighting for that right and much more by addressing the complex needs of victims of crime for more than 20 years. We exist because the very people directly harmed by violent and heinous crime are still often overlooked when justice, services and rehabilitation from crime’s terrible impacts are the goals.
WOMEN'S HEALTH
Liverpool Women's Health Centre - is a community based service run by women for women. It operates from a feminist holistic philosophy and takes a social view of health.
Queensland Women's Health Network Inc - We aim to strengthen links between women, women's services, the health sector and key decision makers in Queensland by assisting with information, support and advocacy.