Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls 2023
Online Conference 19 September 2023, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Learning Outcomes
- Examine government policies, navigating current policy landscape and other government initiatives that aim to reduce violence against women and girls on a national level
- Hear from sector experts about their opinions and recommendations concerning current government policy
- Discover the vital role local authorities play in coordinating efforts against violence against women and girls
- Recognise the support needed for victims and develop partnerships with the police and councils to improve community cohesion
- Understand how to lower the levels of violence against women and girls using evidence from survivors, witnesses, and those who work to support them, using this to actively identify and prevent crimes
- Discuss the role of education in tackling violence against women and investigate the underlying issues of gender-based violence from an academic perspective
- Address the new forms of violence, particularly through the internet, and their implications on institutional outcomes for victims and perpetrators
- Learn how to challenge harmful stereotypes and patriarchal norms which lead to violence, looking at a whole-of-society approach at home, school, the workplace, in public spaces and online
- Examine the role of media and how its power can be utilised to challenge harmful stereotypes and behaviours that lead to violence against women and girls