The stories of women and girls matter

Gender based violence is a multi-faceted issue and can encompass physical, sexual, economic, cultural and emotional mistreatment based on a person’s gender.

To really address the issue of gender-based violence, we need to work with individuals, families, communities and societies to change societal norms and envision a different future.

Of spectacles, discrimination, women and empowerment

Reflecting on famous Pakistanis of history, HCR finds common purpose with those who promoted the potential of human empowerment. At the heart of it, that is all we do in the marginalised communities we partner with. We encourage strategies that neither overlook nor discriminate against the powerless, but create potential for their empowerment.

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It's a ting thing

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A number of years ago the word ting made its way into my vocabulary. Google it and you'll find it is a wireless service provider for cell phone services, a carbonated grapefruit drink, a way of saying 'thing' and more. But the Chinese character for ting grabbed my attention when I learned the separate characters for eyes, ears, attention, king and open heart--when combined--form the verb to listen or obey.

Badimaya Yarning with Uncle Ollie

HCR’s Western Australia (WA) based team, Dane Waters, and Celeste Larkins, have been working on a project to record and preserve local Aboriginal language in the Mid West Gascoyne area.  The project is led by Bundiyarra Irra Wangga Language Centre whose mission as an organisation is to preserve, revitalise, and maintain Aboriginal languages and culture. 

First Response Radio Training in the Philippines

The concept for First Response Radio was developed by HCR in 2001 and first deployed after the 2004 tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The Rapid Response Radio Unit (RRRU), as it was then called, is a portable radio broadcasting system small enough to fit in a suitcase with a team of radio producers specifically trained to quickly broadcast critical information to communities following a disaster. FRR and HCR continue to contribute to each other's activities in training design, training delivery, deployment and research and evaluation.