by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Nov 17, 2021 | News, Public Inquiry
John’s* life has been blighted by the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his Catholic school principal.
Forty years on, he is having to appeal to the Marist Brothers for redress, the very institution who employed the perpetrator.
John was shut out of the investigation before being offered a compensation figure he describes as insulting and an impersonal “computer-generated” apology letter.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Nov 12, 2021 | News
The findings of interviews with peer support workers address how the use of multiple instances of the intentional peer support model implemented by PartnerSPEAK has a mutual benefit for both peer workers and their clients. PartnerSPEAK provides advocacy and support for the non offending partner and family of a perpetrator of child sexual abuse and child exploitation material.
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Authors: Christian Jones, Delanie Woodlock, Michael Salter
Nov 2021
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Nov 12, 2021 | News
Hyperallergic speaks to director Robert Greene and three survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests about their new film Procession.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Nov 11, 2021 | News
This Practice Note on Covi-19 Vaccination policy provides guidance for its member organisations providing face-to-face support services in a Covid-19 environment.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Nov 10, 2021 | News
An independent review into the access and use of client information within ACC will be led by prominent lawyer Linda Clark.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Nov 10, 2021 | News
There is a widespread and systematic problem of ACC staff having inappropriate access to the files of sexual abuse survivors, advocates say.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Oct 31, 2021 | News
A technical assistance guide from the National Research Centre on Domestic Violence
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Author: National Research Centre on Domestic Violence
2017
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Oct 31, 2021 | News
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Author: Alison Noël Burke
October 2021
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Oct 18, 2021 | News
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 therapies.
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Authors:
Dr Cathy Kezelman AM President Blue Knot Foundation
Irene Gallagher Chief Executive Officer BEING – Mental Health Consumers
Peter Schmiedgen Policy Officer BEING – Mental Health Consumers
October 2021
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Oct 11, 2021 | News, Public Inquiry
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 by its teachers, over many decades.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Oct 11, 2021 | News
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 girl.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Oct 4, 2021 | News
ACC is spending nearly 45 million dollars on a bid to prevent sexual violence, including $11.7 million for kaupapa Māori approaches.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Oct 4, 2021 | News
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 victim’s aunt and an abuse survivors’ group said it showed the church should have prevented Sosefo Sateki Raass’ offending.
The Tongan church gave Raass a good character reference before he moved to Auckland, where he was convicted in 2019 of indecent communication with a person under 16 and subsequently quit the priesthood.
But a complaint had been lodged about Raass in 2006, and the head of the Tongan church, Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi, admitted there were repeated rumours about Raass’ behaviour.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Sep 23, 2021 | News
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 computer was found by a member of the public at a central Christchurch address, who briefly checked it and saw what appeared to be images of naked underage boys.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Sep 23, 2021 | News
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 in collaboration with Canada’s Project Arachnid, which searches for and identifies child sex abuse material online.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Sep 17, 2021 | From the Chairmain's Desk, News
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 must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty”
Mother Teresa
Kia ora koutou.
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