Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events
** Update 2/2/23:** Given revised guidance from the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) Program, API-GBV will now award up to 40 grants for both DV and SA, totaling close to $12 million USD! Applicants may submit either DV, SA, or combined (DV/SA)...
Featured, New, News and Events, Sexual Violence, Teen/Youth Dating Abuse
This summary report lifts up the experiences and needs of Asian, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students and staff who face dating and domestic violence, sexual assault, or sexual harassment on campus. While focused on experiences of survivors...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
9/20/22 at 12:00 – 1:30 pm PST From spiritual abuse to being a key tenant of survivors’ healing journey, faith plays a critical role in many survivors’ experiences with violence. Faith leaders such as pastors or temple leaders are frequently the first ones that...
Featured, Gender-Based Violence, News and Events, Uncategorized
9/14/22 at 12:00 – 1:30 pm PST When AAPI advocates say they want to work on policy advocacy, what does that mean? Do rules governing non-profits limit our ability to advocate to improve systems and laws impacting AAPI survivors? Because elected officials vote on...
Gender-Based Violence, News and Events
API-GBV was joined by Karlo Ng, Director on Gender-based Violence Prevention and Equity, Office of the Secretary at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Ms. Ng shared tips and resources in navigating HUD housing and homelessness programs to best...
Domestic Violence, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Homicide, News and Events
8/10/22 at 12:00 – 1:30 pm PST What happens when the laws that are supposed to protect survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault become turned against them? Survivors can be criminalized for reacting in self-defense, participating in criminal activity...
Featured, New, Trafficking
Alia El-Sawi, a Victim Assistance Specialist at the Department of Homeland Security, joins API-GBV for our first “fireside chat” hosted by our Executive Director Monica Khant. Drawing also from her previous role as the Anti-Human Trafficking Coordinator at a...
Domestic Violence, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Refugee Survivors
Following the sudden withdrawal of U.S. military presence from Afghanistan nearly 100,000 Afghan refugees were evacuated to the United States, with many still remaining on U.S. military bases and resettlement to happen by the end of January 2022. Many evacuees now...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Domestic Violence, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Worldwide, New, News and Events
Over the past year and a half, API-GBV strove to learn more deeply from our community of front-line advocates, national partners, systems contacts, and allies through a series of listening sessions, assessment, and surveys. During this webinar, staff shared themes and...
Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Worldwide, News and Events
A conversation with Dr. Nusrat Rabbee, author of War Heroines Speak: The Rape of Bangladeshi Women in 1971 War of Independence. During this dialogue, Dr. Rabbee discussed the use of rape as a weapon of genocide in the war of 1971, and how it impacted not only the...