Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Gender-Based Violence Worldwide, Pacific Islanders
This literature review synthesizes material from the reports on violence against women in Pacific Island Countries and presents analysis of social contexts, challenges in addressing violence against women, the nature and extent of violence against women, accessing...
A-Z Advocacy Model, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
The A-Z Advocacy Model is defined by the nexus of an extraordinary inventory of evidence-informed practices in response to existing and new trends in gender-based violence and inter-and intra-API cultural and linguistic diversity. It is anchored in principles that...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
The Community Engagement Continuumdocuments a range of innovative community based approaches in the anti-violence movement and clarifies the goals of engagement. The four points on the continuum – outreach and education, mobilization, organizing, and accountability –...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Gender Democracy Vs. Gender Inequality, Transforming Gender Roles
The presence of gender violence tells us about the presence of inequality; the extent of violence tells us about the extent of the inequality. Originally presented as opening remarks at our 2011 National Summit, these thoughts elucidate where we are now (cultures of...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
This training curriculum is based the report, Outreach, Mobilization, Organizing and Accountability to Address Violence Against Women in Asian & Pacific Islander Communities. Trainers should familiarize themselves with the report before using this training...
Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Violence, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence, Our Analysis
From the aborting of female fetuses to intimate homicide, girls and women may encounter numerous oppressions during infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and as elders. Some of these are confined to one stage in the lifecycle, some continue into subsequent...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Gender Democracy Vs. Gender Inequality, Our Analysis, Patriarchy & Power, Transforming Gender Roles
Engendering Change: Transforming Gender Roles in Asian & Pacific Islander Communities grew out of a round-table discussion, convened by the API Institute, inviting battered women’s advocates and providers of Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) with the following...
Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence, Research and Data
This research project aimed to enhance the understanding of Asian battered women’s experiences in seeking help from the criminal justice system and other programs, and to develop recommendations for system responses to IPV in Asian communities. To this end,...
Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis, Pacific Islanders, Patriarchy & Power
The notions and strategies of colonial domination are used by patriarchy to continue male dominance over women. We need to counter claims that colonization has led to violence against women, by pointing out that there is in fact a tight connection between colonization...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Engaging Men, Gender Democracy Vs. Gender Inequality, Gender-Based Violence, Patriarchy & Power
What will it take for men in our communities to divest from gender violence and invest in gender equality? This report examines how engagement applies within the cultural contexts of Asian men and their communities. Because sociocultural differences influence how...
