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This report outlines the discussions from the first national roundtable on responding to violence against culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women and their children.

The Department of Social Services Family Safety Pack includes information on Australia’s laws regarding domestic and family violence, sexual assault and forced marriage, and a woman’s right to be safe and has been translated into 46 languages.  Interpreters and Family Safety is a new

The Department of Social Services Family Safety Pack includes information on Australia’s laws regarding domestic and family violence, sexual assault and forced marriage, and a woman’s right to be safe and has been translated into 46 languages.  Interpreting in Domestic Violence Situat

This report examines current knowledge about family violence against immigrant and refugee women. The report identifies key gaps in literature, particularly in connection to the ways immigration policies, structural disadvantage and location interact with immigrant and refugee women’s

In 2014–15, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) female leaders hosted 29 kitchen table conversations throughout Australia with women from more than 40 ethnic and cultural backgrounds about violence against women and their children. This report focuses on 11 interrelated issue

The Commonwealth Department of Social Services has developed a family safety pack with information on Australia’s laws regarding domestic and family violence, sexual assault and forced marriage. The pack aims to reduce violence against women from culturally and linguistically diverse

In 1989 Australia established a Women at Risk visa in recognition of the priority given by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to the protection of refugee women in particularly vulnerable situations. Since it was introduced, Australia has helped more than 13,000