Gender-Based Violence, Homicide
Around 87,000 women were killed around the world in 2017, including 50,000 (58%) at the hands of intimate partners or family members. This amounts to some six women being killed every hour by people they know. This study examines available homicide data to analyze the...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, News and Events
To address the domestic violence dynamics and trends in API communities, advocates have designed programs based on an intimate knowledge of their communities and the needs of API survivors. This webinar identifies the differing dynamics and current domestic violence...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, Sexual Violence
Related Resources Domestic Violence Awareness Must Be Inclusive of Immigrant Survivors, 2017 ArticleWe must strengthen our resolve to make sure that our community response to domestic violence is truly relevant to all survivors. Immigration Law Basics for Domestic...
Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Pacific Islanders
A compilation of statistics on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and help-seeking in Pacific Islander communities. Related Resources No Results Found The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to...
Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Violence
Research and data on sexual abuse in Asia and in the U.S, community-specific abuse, child sex abuse, sexual abuse among young adults, and help-seeking & services. Related Resources The Children We Sacrifice, 2000 FilmProduced by SHaKTI Productions Through stories...
Forced Marriage, Gender-Based Violence
This exploratory study aimed to broaden the literature on forced marriage to examine forced marriage in the United States context. The study focused on the nature and scope of forced marriage in the context of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, as well as the...
Gender-Based Violence, Trafficking, Trauma-Informed Care
Building from what trafficking survivors have taught us, this webinar discusses how to identify survivors, how past experience of help-seeking can influence current attempts, and the importance of trauma-informed care at different points of contact with survivors such...
Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Pacific Islanders, Sexual Violence
This guide, written by the Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP), provides an overview of the diversity in the Pacific Islands and aims to orient the reader on the geographical, historical, ethno-linguistic, and cultural diversity of the Pacific Islander...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Research and Data, Sexual Violence
Domestic and gender violence manifest differently across communities: prevalence and incidence rates, attitudes to domestic violence and help-seeking, culturally rooted types of abuses, and traditional norms for women and men, vary. This factsheet on violence and help...
Forced Marriage, Gender-Based Violence
Heartbeats: The IZZAT Project is a comic book and expressive arts project using illustration, writing and theatre to explore and share community stories about resilience in the face of violence and to challenge how “izzat” or “honour” has been...
