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Stop Violence Against Women
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Stop Violence Against Women
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VWC provides Centre-based counselling as
well as mobile counselling. Counsellors listen to you then help you to find
solutions to your problems. All women and children are welcome to come to the
centre for counselling. You can also phone or write to the VWC about your concerns.
Everything is kept confidential between the counsellor and you.
The VWC provides
information to the community at large on the issue of violence against women
and children. This is carried out through community workshops, public awareness
talks, and our fortnightly radio programs. VWC also produces T-shirts,
Stickers, Posters, Calendars, and other materials that promote awareness of
women’s and children’s rights.
The VWC works to
empower women by making them aware of their legal rights, in particular their
rights regarding marriage, divorce, custody, maintenance and domestic violence.
The VWC also plays an important role lobbying for law reform that will further
promote and protect women’s right and protect them from violence.
The
VWC also promotes and disseminate information on the Convention on the
Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), as well as lobbying for their
implementation at national level
The Vila CAVAW began
organizing activities for the 16 days of Activism Campaign against Gender
Violence in 1992. It was then agreed that the CAVAW should have a permanent
centre to address the issues of violence against women in Vanuatu. The Centre
was staffed by volunteers until 1994, when funding was provided by the
international Women’s Development Agency (IWDA).
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