Domestic violence is a significant health issue and a violation of women’s rights worldwide. Australia signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1983 and committed to eliminating gender-based violence. Social workers are at the forefront of the fight against domestic violence in Australia. They should be equipped with relevant skills and nuanced understandings of contributing factors in women’s experiences of domestic violence. This paper argues that cultural and religious factors contribute to Muslim women’s domestic lived experiences and their responses to addressing domestic violence. The discussion through this paper elaborates on how cultural and religious elements within Muslim communities could be both emancipatory and oppressive. The paper also provides a culturally and religiously competent human rights approach for social work practice to address a conflict between cultural obligations and women’s choices to maintain women's self-determination. The human rights lens could help social workers include women in decision-making when addressing domestic violence where there is a conflict between their self-determination and religious requirements.

家庭暴力是一个重大的健康问题，也是对全世界妇女权利的侵犯。澳大利亚于1983年签署了《消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约》（CEDAW），致力于消除基于性别的暴力行为。在澳大利亚，社会工作者处于打击家庭暴力的最前沿。他们应该具备相关技能，并对导致妇女遭受家庭暴力的因素有细致入微的理解。本文认为，文化和宗教因素有助于穆斯林妇女的家庭生活经历及其对解决家庭暴力的反应。本文的讨论详细阐述了穆斯林社区中的文化和宗教因素如何既具有解放性又具有压迫性。该文件还为社会工作实践提供了一种文化和宗教上有效的人权方法，以解决文化义务与妇女选择之间的冲突，以维护妇女的自决权。在解决自决与宗教要求之间存在冲突的家庭暴力问题时，人权视角可以帮助社会工作者让妇女参与决策。