Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, Sexual Violence
Related Resources Webinar: New Public Charge Policy Updates: Their Impact on Immigrant Survivors An informational webinar providing up-to-date analysis on the impact of the public charge inadmissibility rule on immigrant survivors. Join us to learn more about how...
Featured, 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 How To Make Sure Immigrant Women Aren’t Left Out of Me Too ArticleWe need...
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, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Research and Data, Sexual Violence, Updated
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...
Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Violence
From forced body modification to public molestation, sexual violence can take many horrific forms in API communities, with women and girls as the overwhelming targets. Coupled with victim-blaming dynamics and the traumatic histories of abuse faced by many immigrants...
Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Violence
Throughout the years that KAN-WIN has been serving Asian American and immigrant sexual assault survivors, staff have uncovered numerous obstacles such as extreme shame felt by survivors and language barriers when dealing with law enforcement. Furthermore, while...
Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Violence
This TA brief provides suggestions for advocates, survivor/victims, communities, agencies, and service providers to address sexual violence. it takes into account the discomfort and vulnerabilities advocates themselves may face, issues related to language access, and...
Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Violence
This curriculum is designed to reduce compartmentalized services, explore how advocate discomfort inhibits victim disclosure, and address sexual abuses experienced by immigrants and refugees in their home countries and conflict zones. It aims to equip participants to...
Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Violence
Shot in India, Sri Lanka, Canada and the US, The Children We Sacrifice is a 61-minute video documentary that explores the universal crime of incestuous sexual abuse through the prism of South Asian experience. Through stories by women abused from as young as two, the...
Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data, 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...
