Tag: sex-based violence
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Protecting Single-Sex Services for Female Survivors – Email to Meg Webb
Email sent to Independent MLC for Nelson, Meg Webb, on 20.04.26 Subject: Thank You for Speaking at the No More Violence Rally – Protecting Single-Sex Services for Female Survivors Dear Ms Webb, I write on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania to thank you for addressing the “No More Violence Rally” on Parliament Lawns yesterday, Sunday…
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Calls for Legal Protection of Sex After “No More Violence Rally”
Women Speak Tasmania applauds the more than 100 Tasmanians who gathered yesterday at the “No More Violence Rally” on Parliament Lawns. Organised by What Were You Wearing Australia, the rally demanded stronger action and funding to end men’s violence against women and children ahead of the May State Budget. Tasmania’s chronically low funding for sex-based…
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Analysis of the UN Report by Reem Alsalem titled Sex-Based Violence Against Women and Girls: New Frontiers and Emerging Issues (A/HRC/59/47)
Purpose of the Report The report examines new and evolving forms of sex-based violence against women and girls that remain underrecognized. It reaffirms the biological reality of sex as central to understanding female oppression and urges States to protect women’s sex-based rights, especially amid rising gender identity ideologies. Key Issues Identified International Legal Context Key…
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LA street artist Lauren YS causes public outrage with their Fitzroy woman in bondage mural
A mural depicting a woman in bondage painted by a Los Angeles-based artist in Fitzroy has sparked hundreds of people to flood the City of Yarra’s inbox with complaints. A mural depicting a woman in bondage gagged and bound with ropes that was painted on a wall in Fitzroy earlier this month has sparked hundreds…
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Rape crime data based on sex not gender
WST congratulate the Government for recording rape crime and victim data for statistical purposes according to sex not gender. Yesterday WST received a reply from Deputy Premier, Attorney General and Minister for Justice Guy Barnett confirming that data for statistical purposed in rape cases: ‘it is the sex of accused people and complainants that is…
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Input to the Report of the Special Rapporteur on Sex-Based Violence Against Women and Girls: New Frontiers and Emerging Issues
About Us Women Speak Tasmania (WST) is a women-led and women-centered grassroots advocacy organization. We campaign for the sex-based rights of women in Tasmania and collaborate with other advocacy groups across Australia to advance these rights. Australia National Policy Australian women are experiencing a new form of sex-based discrimination: the erosion of hard-earned rights in…
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Analysis of the UN Report by Reem Alsalem titled Sex-Based Violence Against Women and Girls in Sports: Causes and Consequences (A/79/325)
Overall Focus of the Report In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, explores the various forms, causes and consequences of violence against women and girls in sports. Key Points on Men in Women’s Sports 1. Fairness and Safety Reem reported “the least powerful…