Anti-violence group slams ‘sexist’ Human Rights Commission decision

Source: australia.ncfm.org --- Sunday, September 18, 2016
Media release - for immediate release - Monday September 19th 2016 Anti-violence group slams ‘sexist’ Human Rights Commission decision The One in Three Campaign , Australia’s key advocacy organisation for male victims of family violence, has criticized the extraordinary move by Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs to ban male researchers from the 2017 Personal Safety Survey . “This seems nothing more than an attempt to protect the already heavy gender discrimination influencing and distorting this key survey of violence in Australia,” said campaign researcher Mr Paul Ross. The survey, conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, is a vitally important piece of research regularly used as the best barometer of family and domestic violence and therefore dictating government policy, resources and funding. “The public who fund this survey have a right to facts and information that is not distorted by gender-political interests or ideology,” said Mr Ross. “Few people would be aware that the terms of the survey are dictated and controlled by an advisory group made up of 22 organisations, many of them strongly influenced by feminist ideology. There is not a single organisation representing the interests of men and boys on the group.” The survey has a long history of gender imbalance, bias and discrimination. The first survey in 1995 was the Women’s Safety Survey , funded by the then Federal Office For Women. It surveyed only wom ...

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