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 gender-related killing of women and girls, with a specific focus on intimate partner and family-related homicide and how this relates to the status and roles of women in society and the domestic sphere.
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Defending Criminalized Survivors Workshop
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 under their abusers’ coercion, or for failing to protect their children from witnessing or being impacted by violence in the home. Survivors of color, who struggle with mental health or substance dependency, or who otherwise don’t fold the “perfect victim” mold are disproportionately incarcerated. In this workshop, API-GBV will be joined by Hyejin Shim and Neda Said of Survived & Punished, who will guide participants through a discussion of the criminalization of survivors, and how advocates can support criminalized survivors.
Facts & Stats Report: Domestic Violence in Asian and Pacific Islander Homes, 2020
Statistics from published and unpublished studies on prevalence of abuse, domestic violence, types of abuse, attitudes towards domestic violence, help seeking attitudes and experiences, service utilization, health and mental health consequences, exposure to family violence in childhood, and domestic violence related homicides.
Shattered Lives: Homicides, Domestic Violence and Asian Families, 2010
An analysis of domestic violence related homicides in Asian families from 2000 to 2005.
Gender Differences in Intimate partner Homicides among Ethnic Subgroups of Asians, 2016
Sabri B, Campbell JC, & Dabby C. 2016. Violence Against Women. 22(4): 432-453.
This study analyzed gender differences in intimate partner homicides (IPHs) among Asian Americans.
Results from the Hawai’i Domestic Violence Fatality Review, 2000-2009
Pobutsky A, Brown M, Nakao L, & Reyes-Salvail F. 2014. Journal of Injury & Violence 6(2): 79-90.
The results of multidisciplinary and multiagency reviews of domestic violence fatalities conducted by the Hawai’i Domestic Violence Fatality Review.
By United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
November 2018