{"id":4414,"date":"2019-11-27T17:34:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T17:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2019-11-27T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T17:34:16","slug":"16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we begin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alp.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=942ebc4c1cf8fc522a4f4c50e&amp;id=5564ade9d2&amp;e=579c54a3a1\">16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence<\/a>, with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and culminating on 10 December with Human Rights Day.<br \/>\nBut the responsibility and effort to end violence against women never ceases \u2013 and rests with all of us.<br \/>\nWhile domestic and family violence affects everyone, we know that women are disproportionately impacted.<br \/>\nViolence and abuse against women exists in many forms including physical, emotional, financial. And the sharing of non-consensual intimate images is becoming more prevalent.<br \/>\nThis is a national scourge, a national crisis and a national shame \u2013 the status quo is unacceptable.<br \/>\nPreventing violence against women requires fundamental cultural and attitudinal change through awareness and education of both young and old.<br \/>\nGovernment and business; communities and individuals \u2013 everyone has a role to play \u2013 and men are an integral part of the solution.<br \/>\nThe Government can and must make it easier for women to escape violent and abusive relationships.<br \/>\nIt can improve access to the social security system.<br \/>\nIt can provide more safe places for women and their children to stay.<br \/>\nIt can ensure our national employment standards provide the flexibility and support for women to leave violent relationships, including a commitment to paid domestic violence leave.<br \/>\nIt is encouraging to note that last week\u2019s Workplace Gender Equality Agency scorecard showed more employers were enacting policies and strategies on family and domestic violence.<br \/>\nEveryone in the community has a role to play in the prevention of family violence \u2013 this is everyone\u2019s business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we begin\u00a016 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and culminating on 10 December with Human Rights Day. But the responsibility and effort to end violence against women never ceases \u2013 and rests with all of us. While domestic and family violence affects everyone, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}