Community-Based Participatory Research, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, New, News and Events, Research and Data, Uncategorized
This summary report provides key findings from API-GBV’s 2023 Needs Assessment as a preview for the full report, which will provide more in-depth analysis and discussion on the needs of AANHPI-serving GBV community organizations. Major findings from this summary...
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...
Featured, New, News and Events, Sexual Violence, Teen/Youth Dating Abuse
This summary report lifts up the experiences and needs of Asian, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students and staff who face dating and domestic violence, sexual assault, or sexual harassment on campus. While focused on experiences of survivors...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Language Access, Interpretation, and Translation, New, News and Events, Pacific Islanders
This project aimed to translate and develop educational resources and tools on GBV in indigenous Pasifika languages. The project aims to empower individuals, families, community-based and system responders, allied professionals, and the community-at-large with...
Domestic Violence, Featured, New
This study explores risk and protective factors in five Asian American communities: Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, North Indian Hindu, and Pakistani Muslim. These factors include cultural traditions, norms, attitudes and beliefs, particularly around gender roles,...
Domestic Violence, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Homicide, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, News and Events, Research and Data, Updated
The 2020 updated and expanded Facts and Stats Report contains new statistics on domestic violence, community attitudes, health and mental health impacts, help-seeking behavior, domestic violence related homicide, and more. The Facts & Stats Report, consistently...
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
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,...
