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In light of heightened fear within immigrant communities, the following FAQs are intended to address confidentiality and due process protections afforded to victim advocacy organizations and victims themselves. Immigrant survivors often seek information from victim...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Ensuring Access to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Language Access to Language Justice, Language Hub, Language Plan, Language Plan, Interpretation, and Translation, Limited English Proficient (LEP) Survivors, New, News and Events, Uncategorized, Working with Interpreters
Interpreters follow a unique set of ethical obligations and principles to become a conduit of communication. Their role helps remove communication barriers so that individuals with Limited English Proficient (LEP) are afforded full and equal protection under the law....
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 , Native Hawaiian, and Pacific...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
Every election, voters are provided with an opportunity to communicate what is most important to them and to elect leaders who they believe will best represent them and their values. As survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of gender-based...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Gender-Based Violence, News and Events, Uncategorized
October 9, 2024 Oakland, CA — Today the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) celebrates 40 years since the passage of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA). Administered by the Office of Family Violence Prevention and...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Elder Abuse, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Our Analysis, Research and Data, Uncategorized
In partnership with the National Health Resource Center on DV, Futures Without Violence, API-GBV released this set of five case scenarios. Each case scenario includes reflection questions and discussion points on how to support an elder and their family, and they...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
September 13th, 2024 Oakland, CA — Today, on the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) joins our communities in celebrating the impact VAWA has had in supporting...
Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
Oakland, CA– “The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence (API-GBV) is grateful for the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in U.S. vs. Rahimi, which upholds the law prohibiting individuals who are restrained by a domestic violence protective order from...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culture & Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
May 30, 2024, 7am HST/10am PST/12pm CST/1pm EST In Asian/Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, food is more than just fuel. It gathers people, bridges generations, empowers community, and teaches culture. Incorporating food that is culturally...
Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
April 23, 2024, 8am HST/11am PST/1pm CST/2pm EST On April 23rd, API-GBV partnered with Sahiyo U.S. for Critical Intersections of FGM/C: The Value of Intersectionailty in Cross-Collaboration, a presentation of Sahiyo’s Mixed Methods Report as part of the survivor and...
