Sexual Violence Content Topic Results

This publication provides an overview of the original VAWA legislation and its subsequent reauthorizations in 2000 and 2005, with a particular emphasis on how it relates to domestic violence and sexual assault experienced by Latina and immigrant women. Additionally, it provided an assessment of the VAWA reauthorization efforts in 2012 and made recommendations for moving forward.

This annotated bibliography features articles that address sexuality and sexual violence in religious text and related literature. It reviews research regarding clergy and sexual violence and faith-based responses as well as religious perspectives concerning sexuality and sexual violence.

This is a fact sheet that provides a scenario and discussion to promote a conversation between youth and caregivers around healthy sexual development.

This report presents findings on the intersections between food access, water, sanitation, housing and the incidence of sexual violence in camps for displaced persons outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It also provides recommendations for action to improve access to basic needs and prevent sexual violence.

This report describes a comprehensive, state-level survey of Adult Protective Service operations across the U.S. and its territories. The report includes data analysis and feedback in many APS operational areas.

Healthy Boundaries for Clergy, Spiritual Teachers, and Lay Leaders is an ongoing curriculum for issues that impact those in the role of leadership in faith communities.

This handout developed for survivors of domestic and sexual violence provides tips for the safer use of computers and cell phones. It reviews privacy settings, passwords, GPS tracking, and documentation.

This study explores how the experience of intimate partner violence impacts a woman’s confidence in her ability to negotiate condom use with a sexual partner (i.e., condom use self-efficacy).

This report informs policy makers and employers about the way Vermont workplaces are affected by domestic violence. It provides important information to help employers make decisions about policy and procedural responses to employees involved in domestic violence.

Part of a series of information sheets on violence against women, this document provides a summary of what human trafficking is, its prevalence, the health effects, the health rights and services for trafficked persons, government obligation to the health of trafficked persons, and best approaches to deal with human trafficking from policy-makers, health-care providers and researchers and funders.

This special report summarized key findings from NISVS data demonstrating the widespread nature of sexual violence in the United States, with many victims under the age of 18 when they first experience it.

This research brief explores the relationship between housing issues, homelessness, and sexual violence. The research reviewed indicates that residents of subsidized housing and people who are homeless experience disproportionate rates of sexual violence.