Action Aid
Here’s a great story in the spirit of the festive season.
Melbourne-based academic and human rights advocate Sekai Shand has spent the majority of the last 25 years working in various international disaster zones.
But she recently returned home to the African village where she was raised to perform her most important mission yet - helping the women of her village overcome poverty and violence through self-sufficiency.
Australians are bombarded with advertising and initiatives from governments educating the public about health risks. Smoking kills. Occupational health and safety regulations are law. “Is gambling a problem for you?”
It makes sense, educating the public on health issues saves money in the long run, is preventative and reduces risks. And yet one of the most pervasive, damaging and normalised threats to public health remains taboo and largely unaddressed.
Violence against women is a critical human rights and public health issue. One in three women will experience violence in her lifetime. It is normalised, domesticated and prevalent.
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Squeeze the Middle says:
AliceC. Eric was agreeing with you that mothers are not inherently evil. Eric’s point is that even if men are 5 times more likely than women to hit children (I’m not saying they are), the fact that women spend 20 times (a guess to illustrate the point) more time with… Read more »
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AliceC says:
@Eric “Robert, the statistics show that mothers are more likely to abuse children than fathers. This is probably not because mothers are inherently evil, rather they simply spend more time with children.” Mothers are more inherintly evil? Based on what? Now who’s pushing a gender agenda? Read more »
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