Advocacy for Muslim Women, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
This bibliography is a collection of resources on three key topics: domestic violence in Muslim communities; Islamic rights of women; and notions of gender, race, culture & identity for Muslim women. Related Resources What is Gendered Islamophobia? 2021...
Child Custody in Domestic Violence Cases, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
These training slides address considerations affecting Asian and other immigrants — including different dynamics of domestic violence, trends in abuse, barriers faced by immigrant and refugee mothers, and gender bias in mediation — and the implications for...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis
Culture is too hastily understood as ethnic culture, but in fact we all inhabit multiple cultures simultaneously and need to understand which ones we are operating in to be effective. These training slides, authored by Dr. Sujata Warrier, can be used by advocates to...
Advocacy for Muslim Women, Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Domestic 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...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Featured, Refugee Survivors
Global displacements have reached a record high: an unprecedented 79.5 million people, of which 26 million are refugees, had been displaced from their homes by conflict and persecution by the end of 2019, according to UNCHR. The trauma of displacement is compounded...
Advocacy for Muslim Women, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
The goal of this safety card is to be both a survivor-centered resource and a useful conversation starter for health care providers, counselors, social workers, mentors, or other adults working with high-school and college-aged Muslim youth who are doing universal...
Abusive International Marriage, Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
Building Our Future (BOF) is a community campaign created by community change agents, movement builders, and advocates to end domestic violence and abusive international marriages/relationships in the Hmong community. October 25th was chosen as the Day of Action for...
A-Z Advocacy Model, Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement
The A to Z Inventory of Practice has been developed by the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence to document the range of work and issues addressed by advocates serving Asian and Pacific Islander (API) survivors of gender-based violence and how...
Child Custody in Domestic Violence Cases, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Immigration
This resource provides guidance on how to navigate seven different scenarios in which children and their families may benefit from support services but face intersecting immigration and child welfare legal challenges. The analysis informs not only child welfare...
