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Violence and the Family: Action Plan for the Churches to tackle Abuse - Report of IAFN's Oceania Consultation

This is not simply a report. It is an Action Plan. It emerged from the third regional Consultation on violence and the family initiated and promoted by the International Anglican Family Network. The Consultation took place in Aotearoa New Zealand in partnership with the Family Centre, Lower Hutt, and brought together delegates involved in Anglican family ministries across Oceania. The Action Plan sets out the six steps that participants took in order to make themselves ready to act. Those same participants believe that it is in the power of every Province, diocese and parish to do the same. So they offer this Action Plan as a tool for other groups to

Violence and the Family

This newsletter on Violence and the Family is the first of a series of three issues on this theme. It includes articles from different regions of Africa, from Pakistan, Australia and UK. All make clear the prevalence of violence within the home, both between couples and against children, and the newsletter gives a wider Communion context to the work of the consultation for the Oceania region held in October at the Family Centre, Lower Hutt, Wellington.

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign

As we approach the annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, this edition of IAWN News focuses on news and resources concerned with gender based violence and its elimination.

The Family and Trafficking Trafficking

is a world-wide problem, driven by the same forces that drive the globalisation of markets, with no lack of demand and supply. In varying degrees and circumstances, men, women and children all over the world are victims of what has become a modern day slave trade. Almost every country of the world is affected either as a source, transit, and/or destination country for women, children and men trafficked for the purposes of sexual or labour exploitation. This Newsletter looks at Anglican and other Christian initiatives across the world, such as the Anglican Church of Southern Africa's response to increased trafficking around the Football World Cup, raising awareness in rural communities in India, and the care and support of

Anglican Women at UNCSW 54

At the invitation of the Anglican Observer at the United Nations, Ms Hellen Wangusa, more than 80 women from across the Anglican Communion formed the Anglican Consultative Council delegation to the 54th meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women held in New York, 1 – 12 March, 2010.