CEVAW Analysis
Books, Articles and PhDs
Returning Home examines state responses to repatriation, rehabilitation and reintegration of ISIS returnees from an intersectional perspective, with a focus on ISIS women returnees.
This paper examines the experiences of victim-survivors, and the challenges support services face, responding to these harms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown restrictions.
Police body-worn camera (BWC) technologies—affixed to a vest, sunglasses or cap—are deployed by all Australian police agencies, including in frontline responses to domestic and family violence (DFV). This paper presents the findings from the first Australian study focused on how women DFV victim-survivors view and experience BWCs in police call-outs and legal proceedings.
Reports & Resources
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.
The extreme gender typology enables theoretically informed and gender-responsive approaches to preventing extremism in policy and practice. The typology encourages systematic gender analysis of existing and potential extremisms to empower policymakers and practitioners to reduce violence and enhance gender equality.
While investigating how extremist currents within Buddhism can be moderated, our research revealed the important role of religion in combatting gender-based violence (GBV) in communities. In Thailand, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Buddhist supremacist practices in everyday life can enable and exacerbate pervasive and normalised gender-based violence.
Datasets
The codebook explains the terms and methodological criteria used to train Generative AI tools to identify and analyse conflict-related SGBV media reports.
CEVAW Conversations Podcasts
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?
What does ‘community-led’ violence prevention actually look like in practice? This episode explores three models at different scales: Dixie Link-Gordon's face-to-face work in Redfern Aboriginal community, Dr Zoe Bell's partnership with the Australian Rohingya Women's Development Organisation navigating displacement and statelessness, and Dr Jenny Anderson on Respect Ballarat, a nation-leading community model to prevent gendered violence.
Research on responding to disclosures of violence and abuse in faith-based settings
Videos
Asaf Lone investigates how families of disappeared persons in Kashmir and Punjab pursue justice amid state denial and delay.
Wilasinie Sopapol investigates women’s experiences of violence and insecurity in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Laos, revealing how women navigate and resist harm.
Anggia Valerisha investigates violence against women parliamentarians in Indonesia, examining how political violence targets women to silence their voices and undermine gender-inclusive democracy.