VAWnet News Blog

This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter offers inspiration for moving forward, sharing takeaways and action steps from recent national gatherings and observances including the National Prevention Town Hall and Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2020.

NRCDV is asking for your help by supporting us this #GivingTuesday so that we can collaborate with Black leadership and communities to create a sustainable, long-term plan to address anti-Blackness in the movement to end gender-based violence without current funding restrictions.

We are excited to announce that starting November 2020, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) will be the new home of the National LGBTQ Institute on IPV.  

Brett Hankison, who was fired from the department after the police chief at the time accused him of 'blindly' firing into Taylor's apartment from outside, has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting a woman in April 2018.

Women bear the brunt of digital abuse - threatened with rape and exploited for porn - as the coronavirus pandemic drives ever more people online, media experts said on Wednesday.

Older African Americans experience crime and violence at the intersection of race, age, class and other identities. To address these challenges and increase access to healing services, mainstream advocates and programs must do the vital work of building literacy about the history of privilege, the impact of racism on the lived experiences of African Americans and the impact of intersecting oppressions in the context of domestic violence.