Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
The Community Engagement Continuumdocuments a range of innovative community based approaches in the anti-violence movement and clarifies the goals of engagement. The four points on the continuum – outreach and education, mobilization, organizing, and accountability –...
Forced Marriage, Gender-Based Violence
Voices from the Frontline explores the topic of forced marriage by presenting information from hundreds of questionnaires, stories of survivors of forced marriage and stakeholders, and moves us to confront the problem of forced marriage head on. Voices from the...
Forced Marriage, Gender-Based Violence
This Tahirih Justice Center report is the first comprehensive analysis of provisions in all 50 states and Washington, DC that leave children more vulnerable to forced and early marriage. The report provides state lawmakers and advocates in the United States with the...
Forced Marriage, Gender-Based Violence
This analysis finds that gaps in state marriage laws are failing to protect minors from being forced or coerced into marriages where they may face violence and sexual assault. Related Resources No Results Found The page you requested could not be found. Try refining...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Gender Democracy Vs. Gender Inequality, Our Analysis, Patriarchy & Power, Transforming Gender Roles
Engendering Change: Transforming Gender Roles in Asian & Pacific Islander Communities grew out of a round-table discussion, convened by the API Institute, inviting battered women’s advocates and providers of Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) with the following...
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,...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Engaging Men, Gender Democracy Vs. Gender Inequality, Gender-Based Violence, Patriarchy & Power
What will it take for men in our communities to divest from gender violence and invest in gender equality? This report examines how engagement applies within the cultural contexts of Asian men and their communities. Because sociocultural differences influence how...
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...
Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data, Asians and Pacific Islanders
A series of reports providing insight and analysis along issue areas including: demographics, public opinion, immigration, education, language access and use, civic and political participation, income and poverty, labor market, consumer market and entrepreneurship,...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
This project, conceptualized by Mimi Kim, is an attempt to document the accomplishments and limitations of the API movement to resist violence against women. It goes beyond narrow notions of cultural competence and language accessibility to examine the underlying...
