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To mark World Children’s Day, an important knowledge sharing and capacity building workshop was held in Dublin, Ireland, about the steps that are needed from individuals, organisations, and governments to end orphanage volunteering and visits, and to promote child-centred, family-based care around the world. Global care reform is a long-term…

Orphanage Trafficking, in which children are recruited and trafficked into institutions for the purpose of financial profit and other forms of exploitation, is a form of institution-related trafficking of children. This Roundtable, organised by CPA UK in partnership with the BGIPU, the OSCE and Griffith University from Brisbane, aimed…

Griffith Planetary Health Club is a multidisciplinary student association at Griffith University that fosters and promotes health and sustainability. The club’s goals are to connect with like-minded people, connect with nature, and grow together through shared experiences and environmental stewardship; to drive meaningful change, the club advocates for actionable solutions…

The Griffith University Repair Café is a student-led initiative aimed at giving new life to broken items that would otherwise be thrown away. The café seeks to educate people to view their possessions in a different light. The skilled technicians at the Repair Café can fix household items, clothing, small…

The Australian Repair Network unites a diverse group of stakeholders involved in or interested in the repair sector. Its aim is to foster open and respectful dialogue with the industry, other sectors, and the wider community regarding legislative and policy changes related to the international right-to-repair movement. The network emphasises…

Aligning with VISI Indonesia 2045 (Indonesia Vision 2045), the Standardisation and Product Compliance for Virgin Coconut Oil and Spices Short Course was designed to achieve GOI’s development pillar of sustainable economic development by focusing on key international trade priorities, such as acceleration of export growth through the export of high…

This project is investigating and comparing the trajectories of disclosure of two groups of victim/survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) – people over and under 30 years of age with a disclosure experience between 2013 and 2022. These groups differentiate adults that disclosed abuse during or after the Australian Royal…

The Griffith University Disrupting Violence Beacon is partnering with DVConnect to design and evaluate a pilot program for Queensland men who use violence in relationships. START is a short-term, phone-based program that supports men to build the foundations to stop using violence. Three pathways assist START to achieve this aim.

This project addresses an international and national gap in research focusing on adolescent family violence (AFV) in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in Australia. AFV is an under-researched topic, with increasing recognition of its relationship with adult perpetrated domestic and family violence and ongoing trauma. The emerging body of…

This project is based on an in-depth longitudinal study of 3,894 children’s cases dealt with by customary justice systems in Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories (West Bank, and the Gaza Strip), Afghanistan, Egypt, and Burkina Faso between 2013-2019. The report explores the complex ways in which customary or informal justice…