Vine Quick Reads: 11 July 2025

Vine Quick Reads: 11 July 2025

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

New resource on child-led protection orders and questionnaire from The Backbone Collective

The Backbone Collective has released Child-led Protection Orders: An Information Resource for Victim-Survivors (2025). This guides victim-survivors under the age of 16 through the process of applying for a Protection Order themselves, including information about legal aid and a flowchart of relevant decisions.

The Backbone Collective is seeking responses to their anonymous questionnaire on barriers children face when accessing counselling and other therapeutic services after experiencing family violence or sexual violence. The questionnaire can be found here and closes 27 July 2025.

New report from Oranga Tamariki: Understanding Reports of Concern

Oranga Tamariki has released Understanding Reports of Concern: Insights into the increase in reports of concern in 2024 and exploring future demand (2025). This report examines the drivers of the recent increase in reports of concern made by the public and considers potential trends in the future. Drivers include changes to Oranga Tamariki recording practices, awareness, public reporting behaviours, and social and economic stress.

New report on Normative Advances on Technology-Facilitated Violence against Women and Girls (TF VAWG)

UN Women has published Normative Advances on Technology-Facilitated Violence against Women and Girls (2025). This report provides an overview of key normative advances on TF VAWG at global and regional levels, highlighting ongoing gaps and challenges, and offers promising examples of commitments being translated into action. ‘Normative advances’ here refers to changes in legislation, guidelines, policies, or standards.

New report on data collection and evidence on gender-based violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC)

UN Women has published Measuring gender-based violence: Data collection and evidence on violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics (2025). This report seeks to address knowledge gaps in the scale and manifestations of violence perpetrated with the intent to punish those who are perceived as defying dominant gender and/or sexual norms and narratives. It argues for and provides solutions to enable a greater global capacity to collect comprehensive, disaggregated, and inclusive data to fill this gap.