by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Sep 9, 2020 | News
Alleged abuse, forced separation of families, poor healthcare, unsafe working conditions for young children. A culture of domination and control.
Yet the Charities Services says these allegations from dozens of former Glorivale members are not “oppressive” enough for it to investigate.
Stuff earlier revealed the Gloriavale Leavers Support Trust met with Charities Services last December and presented a letter signed by 35 recent Gloriavale leavers asking the agency to open another investigation.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Sep 2, 2020 | News
The Victorian government has announced a review of laws preventing sexual assault survivors from speaking publicly about their experience, hours after a campaign to have them repealed was launched.
Changes to the state’s Judicial Proceedings Reports Act introduced in February made it an offence for sexual assault survivors to publish their stories under their real identities in cases where proceedings were pending or a conviction had been recorded, unless they obtained a court order.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 24, 2020 | News
Sexual assault victims at the secretive religious Gloriavale sect are made to meet with their abuser and forgive them – without police being notified.
Gloriavale leaders then give offenders “second and third chances” to stop offending, along with more rounds of forgiveness and repentance meetings when they fail to stop, before leaders will consider kicking them out of the community.
Any offender expelled for sexual offending is told to contact police themselves. Gloriavale leaders would make a complaint to police if they did not.
This is the policy the Gloriavale Christian Community, a registered charity, proposed for dealing with sexual assault complaints, sent to its government watchdog Charities Services in January for “feedback”.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 23, 2020 | News
Louise Nicholas taught Kiwis how to speak about sexual violence. Now, she believes the Government wants to silence her. Jehan Casinader reports.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 22, 2020 | News
Over the last few decades more and more cultural attention has been paid to intimate partner violence, especially emotional abuse. Follingstad, Rutledge, Berg, Hause, and Polek (1990) established that emotional abuse fell into six distinct categories; however, little attention had been paid to how abusers can utilize polite communication to hurt their partner. Equally, Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory (1987) had never been applied to problematic communication until Austin’s (1990) face attack acts model. This study aimed to understand how polite communication can be used as a form of emotional abuse.
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By Cimmiaron Alvarez
March 2020
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 22, 2020 | News
Many who have mental illness disabilities suffer from isolation and are disconnected from others. They can experience social anxiety, feel nervous, and be unable to connect or make friends. Some have agoraphobia, where they are unable to leave their home. Past traumatic experiences such as domestic violence or sexual abuse also can cause one to not trust others. Living in an isolated area with little mental health resources can also prevent one from finding trustworthy people. With isolation, there is a lack of social support, and opportunities for allyship with others are scarce. Some may not even have support from their families.
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By Neesa Sunar
3 August 2020
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 22, 2020 | News, Public Inquiry
Abuse of children at Marylands School in Christchurch from the 1950s to the 1980s will be the subject of a special Royal Commission investigation.
The Royal Commission looking into the abuse of children in state and religious institutions has announced it will inquire separately into events at Marylands.
Marylands was a residential school for boys, many with learning disabilities, run by Catholic brothers of the St John of God order.
The commission is asking for victims, families, staff, witnesses or anyone else with knowledge of abuse at the school to call them confidentially on 0800 222 727.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 20, 2020 | News
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has recently released a document on Social Sector Commissioning – Progress, Principles and Next Steps. It does just that – covering commissioning in its broadest sense – “planning, engagement, funding, procurement, monitoring and evaluation that need to be undertaken though third-party providers to ensure people whānau and communities who need support get the support they need.”
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 10, 2020 | News
Medical practitioners, psychologists, chiropractors and osteopaths comprise 22% of registered health practitioners in Australia, yet almost three-quarters of sexual misconduct complaints made to health regulators involved these professions, a world-first study has found.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 10, 2020 | News
Often neglected, male-directed sexual violence (SV) has recently gained recognition as a significant issue. However, documentation of male SV patients, assaults and characteristics of presentation for care remains poor. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) systematically documented these in all victims admitted to eleven SV clinics in seven African countries between 2011 and 2017, providing a unique opportunity to describe SV patterns in male cases compared to females, according to age categories and contexts, thereby improving their access to SV care.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 10, 2020 | News
A commitment from government to include groups who work with victims and perpetrators of family violence in any plan to end family violence was the aim of a march to Parliament.
Tauawhi Men’s Centre co-ordinator Tim Marshall, SafeMan SafeFamily (SMSF) founder Vic Tamati and Male Survivors Aotearoa (MSA) national advocate Ken Clearwater led a hikoi on to parliament grounds on Thursday to ask the Government to commit to creating a cross-party strategy to end family violence.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Aug 2, 2020 | News
Male survivors of sexual abuse are trekking from North Canterbury to Parliament on horseback to send a message to politicians about the need for better protection for children.
Ken Clearwater, the national advocate for peer support group Male Survivors Aotearoa, was one of nine riders to start the nine-day journey to Wellington on Monday.
On arrival at Parliament on August 6, they plan to ask as many politicians as they can to commit to giving a voice to victims.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Jul 30, 2020 | News
Warning: Some details of the alleged offending may be confronting.
A 23-year-old Sydney man has been charged by federal police in Australia with sexually exploiting a young New Zealand girl he groomed through social media.
Published in Radio NZ
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Jul 30, 2020 | News
The National Council of Women of New Zealand has published results from the second survey of gender attitudes in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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From New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse website
14 July 2020
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Jul 22, 2020 | News
The purpose of language is to help us to get a better grip on reality; the more words there are in our vocabulary, the higher the chance we have of being able to describe what we want, what ails us, what is driving us mad – and then in turn, to summon the help we may badly need.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Jul 20, 2020 | News
Critics of double-bunking in prisons say a sex attack at Otago Corrections Facility is symptomatic of a much larger problem.
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