Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

This issue discusses civil and criminal asset forfeiture as a tool in prosecuting cases of human trafficking and related crimes.

In this video, Franchesca Ramsey offers insight into how aspiring allies should respond to being called out for upholding oppression, including offering a meaningful apology and changing their behavior.

This Applied Research paper provides a historical and research overview of Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation, identifies strategic issues for advocates working with victims, and offers guidelines to improve courts’ treatment of these issues.

This document provides guidelines for making shelters safe for transgender evacuees.

Studies show the causes of elder abuse to be wide-ranging, and not necessarily an outcome of caregiver stress. This paper discusses how seeing caregiver stress as a primary cause of abuse has unintended and detrimental consequences that affect the efforts to end this widespread problem.

This report provides the results of a CHRC led research project that provides information on the gaps in legal services and identifies the opportunities for improving outcomes. Also included input from service providers around the country for a national comparison.

Presenters discuss the barriers faced by Latin@ Transgender communities that reside in the U.S. They share information about the TransLatin@ Coalition and the work of this organization with and on behalf of Latin@ transgender communities in the U.S.

This guide is designed to assist administrators of prisons, jails, and community confinement facilities in drafting or revising protocols for an immediate response to reports of sexual assault.

This webinar focuses on the intersections of homophobia, heterosexism and racism that often enhance negative stereotypes associated with being Latino and LGBT. The presenter discusses the impact of language on our anti-oppression work as well as other elements that complicate the experiences of victimization of members of the Latino LGBT communities.

Construction, janitorial/cleaning and landscaping sectors had the highest rates of reported trafficking violations and labor abuses.

This article highlights provisions included in the bipartisan Senate immigration bill (S.744) which specifically enhance protections for immigrant survivors.

This Manual focuses on legal rights and options for immigrant survivors of domestic violence including intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse and abuse perpetrated by other family members or persons that are covered by your state's protection order statute. Breaking Barriers is a comprehensive tool that provides information that will be useful to advocates, attorneys, justice, and social services professionals working with and assisting immigrant survivors of domestic and family violence.