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Risk Assessment Saves Lives
Link to The Independent: “Drive to Cut Red Rape Could End in Murder” I’ve seen firsthand the degree to which risk assessment questionnaires increase the safety of victims. There are countless women at...
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Understanding the Signs and Cycle of Domestic Violence
Link to Help Guide: Domestic Violence and Abuse *Note: this article includes helplines for male and female victims of abuse for the UK, US and Canada, and Australia. It also provides contact...
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Why People Stay In – and Return To – Abusive Relationships
Link to “When They Keep Getting Back Together With Their Abuser” Why do people stay in abusive relationships? And why do they return to their abusers? The questions have similar answers. Often, what...
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Dasani’s Story
Link to NY Times: “Invisible Child” There are as many as 22,000 homeless children in New York City – the most since the Great Depression of the 1930s. “One in five American children is now living in...
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Lauren Wolfe: “The Lost Girls”
Link to “The Lost Girls” Eight more girls have been abducted by militants in Nigeria. Lauren Wolfe writes (full article linked above): “…all the outcry over ‘why aren’t we paying attention’ starts to...
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Kerry Washington on Financial Abuse
Link to “Kerry Washington Sheds Light on an Invisible Kind of Domestic Violence” Melissa Jeltsen of the Huffington Post writes (full article linked above): Financial abuse is a tactic often used by...
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PSA: Human Trafficking in Your Neighborhood
Link to: “Chilling PSA Reminds Us that Human Trafficking Victims are Exploited in Our Neighborhoods” For more on human trafficking, visit the Sex Trafficking and Forced Labor archive.
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Domestic Violence: an Exit Plan
Link to “An Exit Action Plan for Leaving an Abusive Relationship” Approximately 1 in 4 women are abused by their partners. Why don’t they just leave? There is an endless list of reasons, all valid and...
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Leaving an Abuser: “The Most Dangerous Week”, by Safe Horizon
For more information on Safe Horizon, click here. If you are in the United States and need assistance, call their hotline at 1 800 621 4673.
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Mary’s Story: Forced Labor in the United States
Link to original article via MSN TakePart: “Housekeepers Enslaved in America” Written by Alison Singh Gee: Mary was a South American domestic worker living in Washington, D.C. with her employer, a...
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Brianna’s Story: How Pimps Find their Victims
Link to original article via MSN TakePart: “The Girl Who Got Away” Written by Alison Singh Gee: Most Americans think sex trafficking is something that happens somewhere else to someone else, if they...
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Reproductive Coercion
Reproductive coercion is a specific type of intimate partner violence in which one partner forces unprotected sex in order to increase the chances that the other partner will get pregnant against her...
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