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Our Watch welcomes the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs (Standing Committee) Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) and suicide.
Change the story, Australia’s shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women, outlines how violence against women, including domestic, family and sexual violence, is driven by gender inequalities. Primary prevention applies an upstream model to stop violence before it starts. It works at a whole of population level to address the social conditions and behaviours that allow violence against women to happen.
While suicide does not drive domestic, family and sexual violence in of itself, it may substantially increase the prevalence and severity of gender-based violence, including domestic, family and sexual violence. As such, the primary prevention of gender-based violence can contribute to the overall prevention of suicide due to this relationship.
