Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Domestic Violence, Featured, New, News and Events
This advisory explains how the COVID-19 outbreak is impacting Asian and Pacific Islander (API) survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, and describes policies enacted to address the pandemic including the CARES Act, and API and immigrant survivors’...
Featured, New, News and Events
Survivors of gender-based violence in AANHPI communities often face numerous barriers to meaningfully participating in elections, including safety and privacy concerns, laws that disenfranchise many voters, language barriers, and for survivors who are homeless or...
Featured, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, New, News and Events
This report summarizes and synthesizes discussion from a roundtable on GBV in Asian, Middle Eastern, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander LGBTQ communities, convened by API-GBV in September 2019. Attendees discussed how gender manifests as a site of oppression for...
Featured, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, New, News and Events
Domestic violence and intimate partner abuse have often been understood in terms of men’s violence against women. However, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified individuals consistently experience intimate partner violence at similar rates as...
Featured, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, New, News and Events
This report summarizes a presentation by Grace Poore, Regional Program Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific Islands at Outright Action International. The presentation and following Q&A set the context of struggles and activism for LGBT rights in Asian countries,...
Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Featured, Innovative Strategies, New, News and Events
This tipsheet 1-pager, developed by Korean American Family Services (KFAM) describes some suggested practices for working with faith leaders on DV/SV response and prevention. Related Resources How COVID-19 and Systemic Responses Are Impacting Asian and Pacific...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Featured, Innovative Strategies, New, News and Events
Almost 70-80% of Korean immigrants in the U.S. reports that they attend church regularly. Korean American Family Services (KFAM) has encountered so many survivors whose faith play a very important role for their journey to healing. Because of this reason, KFAM has...
