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Sortie de sécurité

Contenu sensible

Ce site contient du contenu sensible qui inclut des références à la violence sexuelle.

Pays

Australie

Scores
83.0/100
Global
88.6/100
Governance and accountability
80.0/100
Prevention
70.0/100
Healing
85.3/100
Justice

Asie de l'Est et du Sud-Est

1st

Global

1st

Governance and accountability

1st

Prevention

4th

Healing

1st

Justice

G20

1st

Global

1st

Governance and accountability

1st

Prevention

8th

Healing

1st

Justice

Rang partagé — un ou plusieurs pays ont le même score.

Indicateurs contextuels
GDP per capita
64407.48
Gini coefficient
34.3
Rule of Law Index
0.8
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
0.06
Women in parliament
46.0
Gender gap in educational attainment
0.99
LGBTQ Equality Index
75.0
Birth registration
100.0
Internet penetration rate
97.06
Online child sexual abuse
3.3
Aller aux données
5.7 million children
which represents 1.2% of the of the region's total population under the age of 18.

What remains: Closing the gaps in protection

Despite this progress, gaps persist. One in three girls and one in five boys experiences sexual violence in childhood in Australia. There is a need to double down on progress made and to address growing risks.

While the Index tracks whether laws and policies are in place, it does not capture the quality or reach of their implementation.

Brave Movement advocates in Australia have also raised concerns about gaps between policy and practice, particularly in cases of intrafamilial sexual violence. While legal frameworks are in place, prevention, healing, and justice are not consistently implemented across the country. In October 2026, survivor advocates are preparing to launch a national walk to bring visibility to this issue and are calling for a Royal Commission — an important opportunity to strengthen accountability and ensure survivor experiences inform future action.

Leadership brings responsibility. Closing these gaps will require action like:

  • Leading globally by advancing action on intrafamilial sexual violence, including through a dedicated national inquiry, such as a Royal Comission, to ensure stronger, more consistent protection and implementation across all states and territories
  • Banning corporal punishment of children in all settings
  • Raising the legal age of sexual consent to 18 with a close in age exemption
  • Eliminating exceptions to the established legal age of marriage of 18
  • Explicitly define grooming of children for sexual purposes within key legislation 
  • Ratifying key protective international legal instruments
  • Adding specific commitments to the national action plan for sexual violence against children
  • Legally mandating training for children’s medical providers on sexual violence against children
  • Increasing victim and survivors’ access to medical care in all regions
  • Expanding access to integrated service delivery for health, psychosocial, legal, and justice services in all regions
  • Establishing government-funded legal aid for all victims and survivors of sexual violence by creating a right to formal legal support from an attorney, specially trained support person or court-appointed guardian to uphold the child's best interest during court proceedings.
  • Eliminating the principle of double criminality in extradition legislation
  • Increase overall budget transparency

Explorateur de données

Advocacy in action

17 reactions · 8 comments | “Nothing about us without us” Dive into the powerful insights from Professor S Caroline Taylor, co-author of the #CouncilOfEurope guidelines for policy makers on engaging with victims and survivors of childhood sexual violence #CSEA ❗️ The guidelines provide essential principles for policy makers on how to engage in a meaningful and safe way with victims and survivors to create holistic, evidence-based policies that effectively protect children, facilitate healing, and ensure justice. The newly published guidelines have been developed by two prominent survivor advocates with extensive experience in engaging and facilitating victim and survivor participation in policy making, Professor S Caroline Taylor and Sophie Otiende “Child sexual violence and exploitation is an urgent and unremitting issue across the globe. Genuine and strategic engagement with survivor advocates in the development, design and implementation of policy, legislation and programmes are key to eradicating these heinous crimes against children. As a survivor advocate, policy makers will never have to be as brave as we have had to be in our lives. But we are asking policy makers to show bravery and courage in adopting these guidelines”. Discover the guidelines on the Council of Europe website: https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/launching-gender-equality-strategy-2024-2029-ten-years-since-istanbul-convention-entered-into-force #LearningFromSurvivors #EndChildSexualAbuseDay #BeBrave #ViolenceIsPreventable | Council of Europe

17 reactions · 8 comments | “Nothing about us without us” Dive into the powerful insights from Professor S Caroline Taylor, co-author of the #CouncilOfEurope guidelines for policy makers on engaging with victims and survivors of childhood sexual violence #CSEA ❗️ The guidelines provide essential principles for policy makers on how to engage in a meaningful and safe way with victims and survivors to create holistic, evidence-based policies that effectively protect children, facilitate healing, and ensure justice. The newly published guidelines have been developed by two prominent survivor advocates with extensive experience in engaging and facilitating victim and survivor participation in policy making, Professor S Caroline Taylor and Sophie Otiende “Child sexual violence and exploitation is an urgent and unremitting issue across the globe. Genuine and strategic engagement with survivor advocates in the development, design and implementation of policy, legislation and programmes are key to eradicating these heinous crimes against children. As a survivor advocate, policy makers will never have to be as brave as we have had to be in our lives. But we are asking policy makers to show bravery and courage in adopting these guidelines”. Discover the guidelines on the Council of Europe website: https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/launching-gender-equality-strategy-2024-2029-ten-years-since-istanbul-convention-entered-into-force #LearningFromSurvivors #EndChildSexualAbuseDay #BeBrave #ViolenceIsPreventable | Council of Europe

“Nothing about us without us” Dive into the powerful insights from Professor S Caroline Taylor, co-author of the #CouncilOfEurope guidelines for policy makers on engaging with victims and...

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