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Knox Vision 2025: Council and Community, a Partnership in Progress
Key Victorian Policy Documents relevant to Violence against Women:
The Women’s Safety Strategy 2002 - 2007
Women’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2006 - 2010
A Fairer Victoria: Creating Opportunity and Addressing Disadvantage (Strategy 3: Responding to family violence more effectively) 2005.
Changing Lives: A New Approach to Family Violence
Code of Practice for the Investigation of Family Violence 2004
Reforming the Family Violence System in Victoria; Report of the State-wide Steering Committee to reduce Family Violence 2005
Victorian Law Reform Commission Review of Family Violence 2006
Draft Family Violence Bill 2007
Key Federal Government Policy Documents relevant to Violence against Women:
Partnerships against Domestic Violence 1998 - 2001
National Initiative to Combat Sexual Assault 2001 - 2005
Women’s Safety Agenda 2005
Key Victorian State Government Laws relevant to Violence against Women:
The Crimes Act 1958
Summary Offences Act 1966
The Crimes (Family Violence) Act 1987
Section 64 (1 & 1A) of Children and Young Persons Act 1989
The Occupational Health and Safety Act 1985
Equal Opportunity Act 1995
Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001
Prostitution Control Act 1994
Crimes (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 1996
Victims of Crime Assistance (Amendment) Act 1997
Key Commonwealth Government Laws relevant to Violence against Women:
Sex Discrimination Act 1984
Racial Discrimination Act 1975
Slavery and Sexual Servitude Amendment Act 1999
Key International Meetings relevant to Violence Against Women
Habitat II, Istanbul, 1996
Beijing Action for Equality, Development and Peace, Platform for Action 1995
World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen 1995
International Conference on Population and Development Cairo, 1994
UN Conference on Human Rights Vienna 1993
Un Conference on Environment UNCED Rio de Janeiro
Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies 1985
Key International Laws relevant to Violence against Women signed by an Australian Federal Government Representative or Head of State:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
Convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination
against women (CEDAW) 1979.
Declaration of the Elimination of violence against women (DEVAW) 1993.
International Covenant on Economic Social, and Cultural Rights 1976
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1976 (and its two optional protocols)
Economic and Social Council, Siracusa Principles on the limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1985 (interpretive provisions)
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1969.
Convention of the Rights of the Child 1990
Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography 2002.
Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1987
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 2003
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