Empowering Communities through Education and Research
Strengthening Families Through Harm Prevention
Knowledge through community participatory research
Strengthening family
Project Sneh
Seek help very early
Diagnose the health of your relationship
Respectful Relations is the key to happy life
Mutual Relational Respect
About Us
AustralAsian Centre for Human Rights and Health is an NGO, a think tank that proposes innovative solutions to build safer and stronger families.
ACHRH believes there is no higher form of contact with humans than art. At ACHRH we use art to find community based solutions; art in service of human rights and human problems in the Australasian region.
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Sneh
Community participatory theater seeking solutions
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Expanding the evidence
Documentaries
Keeping the public informed
Our Impact In Numbers
The ACHRH anti-dowry abuse and extortion campaign commenced in 2013 and successfully became recommendation #156 in the Victorian Royal Commision into Family Violence 2016 Report, before becoming law in Victoria on 29 March 2019.
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Prevention programs
ACHRH has innovated 4 prevention programs with the objectives to find solutions to stop family violence and create change in attitudes towards gender equality and fairness.
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Media appearances
ACHRH has appeared 70 times in TV & print media and has influenced thousands in Australia and internationally through direct contact and media appearances.
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Participants in MCR and MRR
740 participants have taken part in Mutual Cultural Respect workshops and in Mutual Relational Respect workshops
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Participants in Dowry Abuse Prevention
600 participants have taken part in Dowry Abuse Prevention Workshops
Hard Facts - Family Domestic Violence
Source – Our Watch facts and figures
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety Survey 2017
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On average, one woman a week is murdered by her current or former partner.
1 in 3
1 in 3 women have experienced physical violence since the age of 15.
1 in 5
1 in 5 Australian women
has experienced
sexual violence.
has experienced
sexual violence.
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Young women (18 – 24 years) experience significantly higher rates of physical and sexual violence than women in older age groups.
The discussion definitely made me think how we take decisions based on unconscious biases and treat it as norms of the society. Learned behaviour was challenged in the workshop and initiated thoughts to not accept things as they are.
Ms C
Thank you for sending this link to your participatory theater workshop. I love the use of this creative mechanism for sharing knowledge and engaging the audience around such serious topics. I am sending it to my team, who are conducting research with refugee women on IPV and mental health. I am so impressed and appreciative of your innovative work. Well done,
Associate Proffessor Susan Rees
Researcher in Family Domestic Violence Department of Psychiatry University of New South Wales
Thank you everyone for a great team effort. All our Telugu friends truly appreciated the efforts of ACHRH and were willing to extend further support if required. We also received some verbal feedback that these workshops are a way of raising awareness in the communities that DV do exist and the need to work on supporting Victims. The workshop discussions also helped to understand the DV issue from a bystander role. Overall it was a productive workshop. Hope you all enjoyed it too!
Ms Vijaya Tangriwala
Telegu Ladies Club
The workshops were amazing, great learning experience with the wonderful team 😊 Looking forward to next year
Ms Sonia Dahiya
Trained MRR Facilitator
The workshop was great yesterday. My mother and her friend didn't really know what to expect but they both thoroughly enjoyed it and found it to be informative. I just wanted to pass that feedback on.
Ms Uthra Ramachandran
BA LLB (Hons) LLM Monash University
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Support your friends and family
Recognize early signs of family violence in a friend or colleague – sadness, isolation, bruises, constant check-ins by a partner, frequent absenteeism at work. Reach out to them, encourage them to seek help. Easy first step – speak to a GP.
If the problem is worrisome – Help them to ring 1800RESPECT
Our Collaborators
Gender Violence Research Network, UNSW
Overseas Medical Graduates Association
IndianCare Inc
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Brotherhood of St Lawrence
Jhoom Bollywood dance school
Delhi Women Development Studies Centre
Our Memberships
Harmony Alliance
United Nations Association of Australia
National Council of Women
Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA)
Committee for Status of Women, New York
1 in 3 women in Australia
are victims of family violence
What are you going to do about it?
Diagnose the health of your relationship and act!