CEVAW Analysis

Books, Articles and PhDs

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Women in Power: Parliamentary Action, Social Attitudes, and Gender-Based Crime

This paper studies the causal impact of female political representation on legislative behavior, social attitudes, and gender-based crime.

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Understanding the role of faith-based pastoral care in responding to domestic violence

This article provides an overview of the increased focus on the role of religion, religious leadership and faith-based organisations in ending gender-based violence including domestic violence.

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We Are the Data, but Never the Researchers: Epistemic Violence in the Study of Technology-Facilitated Abuse

This presents an auto-ethnographic analysis of research on technology-facilitated abuse affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, grounded in the author's experience as an Indigenous scholar working across academic and policy institutions.

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CEVAW Insights

Phil Doan-Pham CEVAW Insight
The Long Shadow of War

Long after they disappear from the headlines, war and conflict continue to shape the lives of those who lived through them – including how people think about violence inside the home.

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From Voice to violence: the referendum and the unravelling of reconciliation.

Reconciliation is not in crisis. It has been politically exhausted. The 2023 referendum did not simply reject a policy mechanism.

Reports & Resources

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Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the Papua New Guinea Highlands: Technical Report

This report presents the findings from a two-day research dialogue workshop conducted in November 2025 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This dialogue workshop was suggested after the CEVAW Justice Denied conference was convened in June 2025, where the focus was on impunity for conflict-related sexual violence across the Indo-Pacific. It was suggested that Papua New Guinea is an important, yet neglected case of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in United Nations reports and assessments of high risk CRSV locations despite documented sexual and gender-based violence in association with tribal conflicts, elections, and land disputes.

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Evaluation of the Train the Trainer Program: Report prepared for the eSafety Commissioner

This report draws together the key findings from the three-stage evaluation of the training program and provides recommendations from across the three stages of the evaluation.

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Frontline Practice Responses to Violence Against Women in Samoa: Preliminary Qualitative Findings (Phase 1)

This report presents preliminary findings from the Samoa component of the Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) project on frontline responses to violence against women.

CEVAW Conversations Podcasts

Dr Vincent Hurley and Delia Donovan on CEVAW Conversations
Knowing and Doing: 50 Years of Change in the DFV Sector

Fifty years ago, the first women's refuge opened in Sydney. Today, Australia has national plans, specialist police units, landmark legislation, and a sector of hundreds of organisations. So what has actually changed – and what hasn't?