Immigration, News and Events, Research and Data
In May 2019, a coalition of national organizations gathered feedback from nearly six hundred advocates and attorneys from across the United States, learning that many immigrant victims of domestic and sexual violence are now too afraid to call the police or go to...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Research and Data, Sexual 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...
Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Research and Data
This factsheet compiles statistics on domestic violence, sexual violence, domestic violence related homicide, stalking, child exposure to family violence, and human trafficking in Asian and Pacific Islander communities. Related Resources Making Our Home and Community...
Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence, Research and Data
This research project aimed to enhance the understanding of Asian battered women’s experiences in seeking help from the criminal justice system and other programs, and to develop recommendations for system responses to IPV in Asian communities. To this end,...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Research and Data, Updated
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...
Gender-Based Violence, Homicide, Research and Data
Who gets killed? The answer to this question is crucial to understanding the struggles of battered women to survive their abusive relationships and to protect the safety of their children, family and friends. Who did the killing? This is also a critical question...
Gender-Based Violence, Homicide, Research and Data
This study used data from 125 intimate partner killings occurring between 2000 and 2005, gathered from newspapers and femicide reports from state coalitions, to explore differences in intimate partner homicides among Asian Americans. The findings suggest that...
Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Research and Data, Sexual 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...
Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Research and Data, Sexual 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...
Gender-Based Violence, Homicide, Research and Data
In 1997, Hawai’i Revised Statutes authorized the Department of Health (DOH) to conduct multidisciplinary and multiagency reviews of domestic violence fatalities to reduce the incidence of preventable fatalities. These retrospective reviews of events leading up...
