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Aim | To train professional or student social workers, case workers, counsellors, and youth workers, community members, survivors, NGO’s and governmental organisations, who want to understand child abuse, women abuse and elder abuse in Asian, Middle Eastern and African perspectives. 

Outcome | Learners understand the dynamics of domestic violence within Asian, African and Middle Eastern communities. Traditionally domestic violence and abuse is hidden and unrecognised.

Training content | Understanding power and control pyramid (how capitalism, colonisation, post colonisation affects social fabric of the society). Oppression, sexism, homophobia, economic inequality, patriarchy and religion have direct effects on domestic violence. Gender based violence, types of violence and abuse and how it affects women and children.