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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence

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Domestic Abuse in Later Life: Cultural Considerations

This document presents a review of twelve studies that interviewed members of different cultural groups and describes perceptions of abusive behaviors and responses to abuse by members of different cultural groups.

Abuse in Later Life Wheel

This abuse in later life power and control wheel describes different types of abuses that occur in later life and tactics used by abusers to exercise power and control over their victims. This wheel was developed in consultation with survivors of later life abuse.

Elderly Victims of Sexual Abuse and their Offenders

This report of an exploratory study shows that older people experience sexual abuse in their homes, nursing homes, and in the community, suggesting that older age does not protect people from sexual victimization.

Domestic Violence: Older Women Can be Victims Too

This fact sheet presents information about domestic violence in later life, including prevalence, signs of abuse, why women may be staying in abusive relationships, what every one should know, and how others can help.

Movement Building Indicators

This tool can be used to strengthen organizations' plans and strategies around reproductive justice. It is designed for organizations to access their work; specifically organizations with a reproductive justice lens.

Reproductive Justice in the Prison System

This resource highlights the linkages between reproductive justice and the prison system. Statistics are provided on incarcerated women, sexual assault, and abortion in prison.

Framing Reproductive Justice

This essay discusses how the struggle for reproductive justice takes place in the context of a larger struggle over political power and the creation of a dominant worldview. The authors examine the ways in which reproductive rights have been framed by liberals and progressives since Roe v. Wade, offering a critique of these frames. Recommendations are provided of some ways of expanding the frame to encompass a broader range of issues and concerns related to gender justice, democracy and human rights.

More than a Choice: A Progressive Vision for Reproductive Health and Rights

This report presents a new vision of reproductive rights that broadens the current discourse beyond the stagnant abortion debate. Article includes principles of reproductive justice and provides an expanded definition of reproductive rights that equally embraces the rights to have or not have children with a partner of one's choosing and in a time and manner that honors one's conscience and life circumstancesÑand by placing abortion within its appropriate context as one of a wide range of important reproductive rights issues.

Prop 4 Victory Brief: Reproductive Justice at the Ballot Box

This brief discusses Proposition 4 and Proposition 8 in California as catalysts for community organizing, education, and networking; discussing different strategies and ways that leadership and coalitions can be built in communities of color around reproductive justice.