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...
Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Pacific Islanders
A compilation of statistics on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and help-seeking in Pacific Islander communities. Related Resources Defining an Effective Response to DVSA in American Samoa By American Samoa Alliance Against Domestic & Sexual...
Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Violence, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence, Our Analysis
From the aborting of female fetuses to intimate homicide, girls and women may encounter numerous oppressions during infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and as elders. Some of these are confined to one stage in the lifecycle, some continue into subsequent...
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...
