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XY is a website focused on men, masculinities, and gender politics. XY is a space for the exploration of issues of gender and sexuality, the daily issues of men's and women's lives, and practical discussion of personal and social change.

This blog is intended to raise awareness for the families and in particular the children that are being systematically abused by 'Social welfare authorities' around the world and in our particular case by the Australian family court system. Please take some time to read and become aware of the corruption and dishonesty faced by one family in their fight to protect their children from abuse.

power4parents.org is the brain child of a self employed Gold Coast mother of 5 who found herself on the wrong side of DoCS through no fault of her own. After investigating everything to do with her situation, she found that not only were there problems with the Child Protection Act 1999 but that there is an alarming rate of problems throughout Australia with DoCS officers and DoCS workers. She decided that since not much was available online for parents in her position, she would begin a site herself to help and inform other parents who are also struggling with the Department of Child Safety. Through the use of this site, she hopes that parents can be informed, encouraged, supported and find various ways of empowering and helping themselves get through their ordeals. One voice can evolve into many...

Kids in Distress Australia Inc believe: The safety of people, especially children is paramount, and Perpetrators of violence must be held accountable for their actions. The members of Kids in Distress Australia Inc are just every day people who think that 'something is wrong'. If you are concerned about the safety of our children in all aspects of their lives

DVRCV (formerly DVIRC) is a statewide service in Victoria, Australia. DVRCV aims to reduce and prevent family violence by providing education to improve service and policy responses, and by assisting people who have experienced abuse.

Movement Against Kindred Offenders (M.A.K.O) is an Australian not for profit Incorporated Association. Our mission is to help PREVENT and ASSIST victims of child sexual abuse (any form of child abuse) and other sex crime in AUSTRALIA ..

The National Council of Single Mothers and their Children (NCSMC) is a self help group to fight for the basic and essential rights of all sole parent families. The NCSMC was formed to act as a national voice for the existing network of state based councils in Australia

This website aims to provide information to women facing separation, particularly where there is violence and abuse. We hope this information will help women to negotiate safety for themselves and their children. However, we acknowledge that there needs to be important changes in how domestic violence, child protection and family law issues are dealt with to improve the safety of women and children Currently, women face many problems when escaping domestic violence and child abuse. The research indicates that survivors of violence and abuse begin recovery when their exposure to danger has stopped and they are able to re-establish safety. However, since the criminal justice, child protection and family law systems leave women exposed to this violence and abuse, they are placed in the difficult position of being unable to focus on recovery and safety. In fact, when mothers are trying to negotiate their own and their children's safety they are put at more risk as these systems fail to provide a safe environment for this to take place. Resources and approaches need to be further developed and made accessible to improve responses to the needs of women and their children when subjected to 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. Any part of this Website may be reproduced as long as the original meaning is retained and acknowledgement is given to the Women’s Safety After Separation project

The NSW Women's Refuge Movement Resource Centre is the central contact for the NSW Women's Refuge Movement. The WRM is a network of 53 women's refuges situated across New South Wales providing support and accommodation for women and children escaping domestic violence.

The High Commissioner for Human Rights is the principal human rights official of the United Nations. The High Commissioner heads OHCHR and spearheads the United Nations' human rights efforts. We offer leadership, work objectively, educate and take action to empower individuals and assist States in upholding human rights. We are a part of the United Nations Secretariat with our headquarters in Geneva. The Office's priorities are set out in two key strategic documents: the OHCHR Plan of Action and its Strategic Management Plan 2008-2009. These priorities include greater country engagement, working closely with our partners at the country and local levels, in order to ensure that international human rights standards are implemented on the ground; a stronger leadership role for the High Commissioner; and closer partnerships with civil society and United Nations agencies.

Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody: A National Crisis was created in 2003 by two mothers, Mo Therese Hannah, Ph.D. (Chair) of Latham, NY, and Liliane Heller Miller (Vice-Chair) of Charlotte, NC. Our on-going goal is to host a national public forum to address the many complex issues facing battered women and their advocates as they strive to protect themselves and their children in and out of family court. The format of the conference continues to develop, along with the growing body of scholarly research and information documenting the rampant civil, legal, due process, and human rights violations of domestic violence victims and their children by family courts across the country. It includes presentations, round-table discussions, and question & answer sessions with nationally distinguished attorneys, researchers, writers, and mental health professionals, as well as domestic violence survivors and their children. We also seek to foster healing and support for the thousands of mothers, children, attorneys and other supporting professionals whose lives are being adversely affected by this issue on a daily basis. Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody: A National Crisis is a self-sustaining, grassroots phenomenon that is entirely the volunteer work product of it's creators and presenters. We have no paid staff, nor are we financially supported by or affiliated with any particular group, organization, gender-based ideology, or political agenda. The conference is open to lay persons and is of special interest to advocates, social workers, psychologists, attorneys, judges, legal personnel, and others concerned with the civil, constitutional, and human rights violations of battered women and their children occurring in family courts nationwide.

We are the campaigning 'voice' for everyone who has suffered an injustice with the corrupt judiciary system. We endeavor, through our campaigns to bring out into the open the appalling number of injustices (particularly) those relating to child access issues. Mothers protecting their children from violent, abusive fathers are being imprisoned. Residency is then switched to the perpentrator in order to appease the government with no thought to the child's welfare or needs. An ANY Dad is better than no Dad policy be he a paedophile or violent thug...contact at any cost prevails. Our serious concerns regarding our children's welfare is not being addressed. Courts are putting our children in extremely dangerous situations daily, we will not tolerate this abuse any longer. Please join us in our fight for justice. Think we have a fair and just system? Think again...

The Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence (formerly the Leadership Council on Mental Health, Justice, and the Media) was founded in 1998 by professionals concerned with the treatment of victims of trauma, both in professional circles and by the legal system. We are a nonprofit independent scientific organization composed of respected scientists, clinicians, educators, legal scholars, and public policy analysts. Our mission is to promote the ethical application of psychological science to human welfare. We are committed to providing the public with accurate, research-based information about a variety of mental health issues and to preserving society's commitment to protect its most vulnerable members.

UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas: (1) reducing feminized poverty, (2) ending violence against women, (3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and (4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war

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