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Count Every Child

This newsletter, the final IAFN publication for this year, raises issues about birth registration and identity. A birth certificate "is a small paper but it actually establishes who you are and gives access to the rights and the privileges and the obligations of citizenship."

Violence and the Family - July 2011 

“Violence in the home is a violation of God’s wish for humanity.” This is how Bishop David Chillingworth, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, begins his editorial for the third IAFN newsletter in the series on Violence and the Family.
This edition shows how churches in many part of the Communion are responding to the challenge of violence in the home. Participants’ in the recent IAFN Oceania consultation on Violence and the Family (see the Oceania Action Plan for the Churches) were quick to put their learning into practice and have been raising awareness of the issue and working to prevent it in their own contexts.

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