The sexual harm helpline can be accessed free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone, text, website, online chat and email.
Trauma-informed peer support helps create a shared understanding of trauma experiences, the different ways people cope, give and receive support, and recover. It fosters healing relationships, which negate the power and control of traditional…
OPINION: Never look a gift horse in the mouth. That’s the first phrase that sprang to mind when Dilworth School announced plans to compensate former students who were sexually abused…
The head of the New Zealand Catholic church has asked the Vatican for permission to launch an investigation into the handling of complaints about a priest who groomed a teenage…
ACC is spending nearly 45 million dollars on a bid to prevent sexual violence, including $11.7 million for kaupapa Māori approaches.
A priest convicted of grooming a teenage girl to send him nude photos was the subject of a previous complaint that was covered up by the Tongan Catholic Church. The…
Thousands of child exploitation images, including images of children as young as two being raped and tortured, were found on a laptop computer discarded at an apartment rubbish dump. The…
A web-crawling software will be used in New Zealand with the aim of detecting and removing child sex abuse material. The New Zealand Classification Office has joined a one-year pilot…
Phillip Chapman, MSA Chair “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked, and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We…
Read article (PDF) Primary author: One in Three Campaign9 Sept 2021
A new support service for male survivors of sexual abuse is run by men, for men, with a particular focus on te tāne Tairāwhiti. Published in Pīpīwharauroa / Tūranganui-ā-Kiwa.
Oranga Tamariki was warned about restraints at a Christchurch care and protection residence months before it was finally closed. The concerns are highlighted in a December 2020 report by the…
Read article (PDF) Primary author: Cortis, Kyle Jason. American International CollegeMay 2021
Title: The Relationship Experiences of Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: A Qualitative Analysis Although the experience of sexual abuse is quite common among men, particularly among those in clinical populations,…
This is the first population-based prevalence research exploring experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) among disabled people in Aotearoa New Zealand. The researchers also explored prevalence rates of non-partner violence…
WARNING: This article references indecent assault and suicide. A Wellington man says his life has been destroyed by an indecent assault and what he sees as significant failings by the…
In the first in-depth technical briefing on the discovery, researchers have called on authorities to release school records to help them identify the victims. Published in SBS News
Sheltered By Grace is a non-government funded Charity which is an accredited, level 3 Support Accommodation service based in South East Queensland that houses Single Men over the age of…
Southern survivors of sexual abuse are being turned away for important support at an alarming rate, leaving them devastated and re-traumatised, an advocate claims. The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has…
The NSW inquiry into coercive control in domestic relationships published its report this week. The report contains the following sickeningly sexist (and factually incorrect) gendered analysis of coercive control. Apparently…
The Oranga Tamariki care and protection residence in Christchurch where a young person was reportedly tackled and held in a headlock will be temporarily closed. Published in Radio New Zealand
The Boy Scouts of America have reached a US$850 million (NZ$1.2 billion) agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse in what could prove to be a…
Advocates now calling for the Crown to do more to redress this collective loss to hapū from our “stolen generation”. For the last two weeks the public has heard testimony…
A First Nation in Canada’s Saskatchewan province is treating a now-defunct residential school as a “crime scene” following the discovery of 751 unmarked graves just weeks after a similar discovery…
Warning: Details in this article may be upsetting for some readers People who were given electric shock treatment as a punishment while in the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the…
