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November 22, 2023 Oakland, CA — The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence (API-GBV) is horrified by the violence in the Israel-Hamas war. We are struggling to process our grief while continuing to educate ourselves and remain engaged. While we have...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) is a culturally specific national resource center on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence in Asian/Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI)...
Community-Based Participatory Research, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, New, News and Events, Research and Data, Uncategorized, Updated
This report explores and contextualizes the results from API-GBV’s 2023 needs assessment on AANHPI-serving GBV community organizations. The findings support a sustained need for culturally responsive programming and research; specialized training opportunities...
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June 30, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kaylee Wong, kwong@api-gbv.org API-GBV is alarmed by the Supreme Court’s decision today in 303 Creative v. Elenis, which held that Colorado’s anti-discrimination law violates the First Amendment by forcing a private website...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, New, News and Events, Uncategorized, Updated
This factsheet summarizes the layered needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and more (LGBTQ+) Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) survivors and communities in the U.S., based on the current literature available. Although...
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May 25, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kaylee Wong, kwong@api-gbv.org Today the Biden administration published its long awaited U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence: Strategies for Action. The National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence (National Plan)...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Research and Data, Sexual Violence, Teen/Youth Dating Abuse, Uncategorized
AANHPI communities tend to be collective in nature, as well as hierarchical, to varying degrees. Both contexts complicate the concepts of consent and boundaries, especially for AANHPI youth and young adults, who often do not have opportunities to learn about the taboo...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Featured, New, News and Events, Pacific Islanders, Research and Data, Uncategorized
This research report addresses the scarcity of data regarding Pacific Islander communities and presents research on the diaspora in the U.S. It seeks to understand who is the Pacific diaspora in the U.S., where they came from and where they are located; to examine the...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Featured, New, News and Events, Pacific Islanders, Uncategorized
The Samoan Community Project builds on API-GBV’s Pasifika Power & Control Wheel Translation Project, which sought to adapt the well-used tool to Pasifika languages and cultural/community contexts. This report highlights the needs to unpack the Samoan words...
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October 2023: Message from the Board Dear friends and supporters of API-GBV, The board would like to thank you as API-GBV closes out our fiscal year. This year, we’re proud to celebrate so many accomplishments including the growth of our team (staff and board),...
