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women in mental health wards need better protection from sexual assault

  • Written by Juliet Watson, Senior Lecturer, Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University
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Mental health inpatient units should be safe and healing places. But we’ve found women staying in these units are being threatened, harassed and sexually and physically assaulted by men.

These are mostly men also staying on the ward, but can be partners or ex-partners, or male staff.

Our recent research on gender-based violence in...

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