Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
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Immigration, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
February 5, 2024 On Sunday night, Senate negotiators released the text of the “Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024,” legislation intended to address defense funding and border security concerns. Unfortunately, this funding bill includes...
Featured, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
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)...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events
November 7, 9am HST/12pm PST/2pm CST/3pm EST In our work, we recognize that cultural-responsiveness and trauma-informedness are not end goals, but a continuous process of learning and adapting our advocacy to best meet the layered and changing needs of survivors. We...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, New, News and Events, Research and Data
This report presents a groundbreaking qualitative research project focusing on the prevention of domestic violence-related homicides among queer and trans Asians and Pacific Islanders (QTAPI). It uncovers the complex web of risk factors, including isolation and...
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...
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...
Featured, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
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...
