Stop Violence Against Women Network

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The Stop Voilence Against Women hand sign displayed on a banner SVAW hand sign

The Stop Violence Against Women campaign was created to work towards eliminating all forms of violence against women, both in Australia and internationally.

The Network was formed by a group of individuals who felt passionately about the issue and wanted to work together to stop violence against women.

Violence against women is a fundamental human rights abuse The campaign seeks to address such abuses through increasing public awareness and lobbying governments. A great deal of progress has already been made in a number of areas, but violence against women is still significant and far-reaching. In recent years the SVAW network has campaigned around:

an Australian National Plan of Action to Eliminate Violence Against Women
domestic workers in Indonesia
sex trafficking
women in Darfur
supporting a range of international women’s activists in their own campaigns.

Aims

Our aims are to:

raise public awareness and mobilise the Australian public to eliminate violence against women through various events and actions
educate and provide information about policies and practices regarding violence against women both in Australia and abroad
work with other women’s organisations in Australia and internationally to call for the elimination of violence against women.

Get Involved!

There’s a number of ways to get involved in the network. These include attending events, volunteering on stalls, assisting in event planning as well as engaging in advocacy and lobbying. To get involved please sign up for our mailing list or just turn up to one of our meetings. The SVAW action group meets every second Thursday of the month at 6pm at the NSW Action Centre.