Say No to Violence

Each year from 23 November to 10 December, the Zonta Club of Metropolitan Dunedin unites with a network of Zonta clubs worldwide in a campaign to

SAY NO TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

For the 2024 campaign Metropolitan Dunedin has chosen to highlight the insidious behaviours of COERCIVE CONTROL in relationships.

To support the SAY NO message Zonta hubs will be visible at the Farmers’ Market on 23 November and the Meridian Mall on 30 November 2024. Details about Zonta and the campaign will be available at both venues. Please join us at one or both locations for a chat and an opportunity to be heard and seen. Resources to help identify some of the signs of COERCIVE CONTROL will also be available.

COERCIVE CONTROL is a pattern of controlling and manipulative behaviours within a relationship.

Indicators:

• Isolates you from family and friends
• Tells you what to wear
• Calls you despicable names
• Tells you that you are fat, ugly, a waste of space, and no-one else would want you
• Says that you are lucky to have them
• Monitors your phone
• Takes control of your money
• Limits access to bank accounts, no credit cards
• You have to ask for money for groceries and necessities (women’s products)
• Controls and demands sex
• Continuous unfounded accusations of affairs
• Emotionally/physically threatens your children or pets when demands are not met immediately
• Tells your family and friends that you are fine
• Constantly checks up on you at work