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Women’s Knowledge Digital Library

Violence Collection

Resources about women and violence, rape, intimate partner violence, and gender based violence.

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Three Truths to End Sexual Violence

We’ve been misinformed about sexual violence and what works to prevent it. Armed with the truth, we have a fighting chance to stop sexual assault — individually, and as a culture. Lynne Marie Wanamaker is the Associate Executive Director of Safe Passage, Inc., Hampshire County’s domestic violence services provider, as well as a founding member of the Empowerment Self Defense Alliance (ESDA).

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Cyber Sexual Assault Support

Dr. Spring Cooper is a professor at CUNY. She experienced cyber sexual assault (revenge porn) starting in 2018. Her experience drove her to research how survivors of cyber sexual assault (CSA) are able to overcome their experiences.

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Safety Net Project

Exploring technology safety in the context of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and violence against women.

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Cyber Sexual Assault Support

Dr. Spring Cooper is a professor at CUNY. She experienced cyber sexual assault (revenge porn) starting in 2018. Her experience drove her to research how survivors of cyber sexual assault (CSA) are able to overcome their experiences. She led a project that interviewed survivors of CSA who felt like they had “gotten over” their experience in some way. The results of this research are in this website: what survivors say worked for them, and hopefully some things that will work for you too.

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SIEMPRE VIVAS Metro

Nuestro enfoque gira alrededor del acompanamiento espacio seguro, prevencion, investigacion social y activismo.

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FAQs: Types of Violence Against Women and Girls

This article provides an overview of the main forms of violence against women and girls, along with other commonly used terms, that any gender equality activist should have in their vocabulary toolkit.

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DAIS (Domestic Abuse Intervention Services)

Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (or DAIS) believes that a world free from violence is possible. We work to make Dane County, WI, a safer, more just, more equitable place for people who have experienced domestic violence, their children, and the people who love them.

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legal rights

AEquitas

AEquitas’ mission is to improve the quality of justice in sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and human trafficking cases.

Black feminism

Sisters Testify

Connects with the signatories of the African American Women in Defense of Ourselves proclamation.

gender-based violence (GBV)

Safe Hands for Girls

Helping end Female Genital Mutilation, provide support to women and girls who are survivors.

gender-based violence (GBV)

Equality Now

Using the law to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world since 1992.

education

Gender-based Violence in Education

Paper commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2015 report.

gender-based violence (GBV)

Invisible Girl Project

Project committed to shedding light on this atrocity, combatting it, and caring for its survivors.

gender-based violence (GBV)

ASISTA

Advancing dignity, rights, and liberty of immigrant survivors of violence.

gender-based violence (GBV)

VAWnet.org

Materials on gender-based violence and related issues.

trafficking

Freedom Network USA

Alliance of experienced advocates advancing a human rights-based approach to human trafficking in the United States.

gender-based violence (GBV)

Musasa

Organization whose operations are based on Advocacy, Prevention, Peace building and provision of Direct Services to survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV).

Indigenous women

Wise Women Gathering Place

Organization that provides Native American culturally-specific services to any person harmed by violence.

sexual assault

me too. Resource Library

Resources and organizations dedicated to helping survivors based on experience, need, and community.

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