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We have compiled this timeline to document progress and setbacks on the journey towards the prevention and elimination of family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. It highlights key milestones of national or international significance, key research with policy or practice implications and the seeding of new initiatives. For some population groups, events may be drawn from a wider range of sources. The timeline is a living resource. We make changes and updates regularly. We welcome feedback.
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Children and young people
Māori
2020s
Research
2025 Whanaungatanga: Creating opportunities that support wāhine and kōtiro Māori from kāhupo to mauri ora - Vine report

Whanaungatanga: Creating opportunities that support wāhine and kōtiro Māori from kāhupo to mauri ora (Dobbs, 2025) - Vine report published

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2020s
Research
2025 Femicide: Deaths resulting from gender-based violence in Aotearoa New Zealand | Kōhuru Wahine: nā te ririhau ā-ira i te whenua o Aotearoa report

Femicide: Deaths resulting from gender-based violence in Aotearoa New Zealand | Kōhuru Wahine: nā te ririhau ā-ira i te whenua o Aotearoa (Family Violence Death Review Subject Matter Experts (FVDR SMEs) on behalf of He Mutunga Kore | National Mortality Review Committee, 2026) published

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2020s
International
2025 Femicides in 2024

Femicides in 2024: Global estimates of intimate partner/family members femicides (UN Women, 2025) published

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2020s
Research
2025 Interpersonal violence exposure and associations with hospitalisations research

Two papers published drawing on findings from the 2019 NZ Family Violence Study | He Koiora Matapopore 

Women’s lifetime interpersonal violence exposure and associations with hospitalization at the national level: Results from a New Zealand population-based study

(Fanslow, Gulliver, Mellar, Selak & McIntosh, 2025)

Men’s lifetime interpersonal violence exposure and associations with hospitalization at the national level: Results from a New Zealand population-based study (Fanslow, Gulliver, Mellar, Selak & McIntosh, 2025) 

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2020s
Research
2025 Vine – Violence Information Aotearoa

New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse rebranded as Vine – Violence Information Aotearoa

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Māori
2020s
International
2025 UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination publishes Concluding observations on the combined twenty-third and twenty-fourth periodic reports of New Zealand

UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published Concluding observations on the combined twenty-third and twenty-fourth periodic reports of New Zealand on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/NZL/23-24}

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Children and young people
2020s
International
2025 South Australia’s Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence report

With courage: South Australia's vision beyond violence (South Australia Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence, 2025) final report published

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Children and young people
Disabled people
2020s
International
2025 Global research agenda for children with disabilities

A global research agenda for children with disabilities (UNICEF Innocenti, 2025) published

Children and young people
2020s
International
2025 Shared research agenda for child sexual violence in low and middle

A shared research agenda on child sexual violence (CSV) for low- and middle-income countries ( SVRI et al, 2025) developed

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2020s
International
2025 RESPECT women framework updated

RESPECT women: Preventing violence against women (UN Women) 2nd edition published

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