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This list of topics/questions will help advocates and other victim service providers help a trans woman determine if and how to best access women-only shelters.

This 2-pager reviews states legal obligations to eliminate violence against women, reviews international instruments and frameworks to promote human rights, and provides recommendations for states in moving forward.

Violence against women is caused by gender inequality _ including unequal power relations between women and men, rigid gender roles, norms and hierarchies, and ascribing women lower status in society.

This paper reviews the empirical evidence of what works in low- and middle-income countries to prevent violence against women by their husbands and other male partners.

This wheel begins to demonstrate the ideal response, within the Deaf community, to the issue of domestic violence. Community opinion and a desire to make a difference can lead all members of the community to expect full accountability from the abuser by applying appropriate consequences.

This Q and A was conducted with Jennifer Shaw, Project EMERGE Director, Vera House and Lindsay Ryan Anthony, ASADV Empowerment/Project EMERGE Advocate. It provides recommendations for building trust with the Deaf community to ensure that domestic violence services, policies and trainings are grounded in an understanding of Deaf culture.

Embodied in this Code of Professional Conduct (formerly known as the Code of Ethics) are seven tenets setting forth guiding principles, followed by illustrative behaviors.

This page provides information about abuse in the Deaf community, including information on the unique circumstances faced by victims and common Deaf-specific tactics used by abusive partners.

This accessible graphic illustrates - with the use of drawings in place of written words - what a healthy relationship looks like.

New legislation is already being introduced in two of these areas, while the third identified area relates to the unduly lenient sentence regime, which we intend to address as part of this review.