NZFVC Quick Reads: 24 January 2025

NZFVC Quick Reads: 24 January 2025

Welcome to our Quick Reads format. Each week we share selected news bites relevant to family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa. See all past NZFVC Quick reads.

New resource for positive online interventions to combat online extremism in Aotearoa

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue has released Positive Online Interventions Playbook: Innovating Responses to a Shifting Online Extremist Landscape in New Zealand (2024). This playbook was developed in consultation with civil society organisation and communities in Aotearoa. The playbook provides a framework intended to be adapted to the local context within which interventions are being delivered. The playbook features an overview of the key trends in the contemporary threat environment and discusses their implication for designing interventions before looking at current and emergent interventions and ends by outlining the practical considerations for communities and organisations pursuing this work.

New report on ‘cold violence’ in Aotearoa’s Chinese community

Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University have launched a new report, Cultural understandings of abuse of older people: Perspectives from the Chinese community (2024). The report explores a form of elder abuse known as ‘cold violence’ within the Chinese community in Aotearoa, which is a form of emotional abuse that occurs within care relationships. The report explores how the withdrawal of emotional closeness is profoundly destabilising for older Chinese people in the Aotearoa context. It also offers practical recommendations to support the development of culturally responsible service provision and prevention for the abuse of older people. 

MSD launch Te Hao Rangahau, a new online research database

Te Manatū Whakahiato Ora | Ministry of Social Development (MSD) have launched Te Hao Rangahau, a public online database developed to support the research needs of people working on Waitangi Tribunal Kaupapa Inquiries. It is a searchable database of relevant documents written or commissioned by MSD (or previous departments, eg, Social Policy, WINZ, DSW). More information on using the database is available.

VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai podcast series

VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai has launched Whakarongo, a six-episode podcast series, spotlighting care-experienced rangatahi and young people and their stories to raise awareness about the 6 promises made to children in care under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The podcast also features insights from experts explaining why the system functions as it does. More information on the podcast can be found in VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai’s media release. The podcast’s host, Sydney-Anne Martin, who experienced faith-based care, spoke about the podcast with Waatea News.

New report - Ethnic Evidence: Increasing the visibility and value of New Zealand's diversity

Te Tari Mātāwaka | Ministry for Ethnic Communities has released Ethnic evidence: increasing the visibility and value of New Zealand's diversity (2024). The Ethnic Evidence report brings together in one place evidence on how Ethnic Communities are doing in New Zealand. The report includes a section on the experience of family violence and sexual violence within ethnic communities alongside data on other socio-economic indicators.