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A brand-new peer-support service is available today as part of RAINN’s commitment to supporting Spanish-speaking survivors of sexual assault. La Sala de Ayuda is a confidential chat room service that offers survivors another way to get help and support.

It is usually the victims in violent relationships who are forced to leave their homes and seek refuge, but a first-of-its-kind residential program in Perth is removing the perpetrators. When Steve thinks about the time he broke his wife’s nose, he’s disgusted in himself.

Tribal leaders and advocates gathered in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to brief Congress on implementation of a provision in the 2013 Violence Against Women Act, which affirmed tribes’ ability to exercise special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction over non-Natives who commit domestic assault, or engage in dating violence, on tribal lands.

How do you identify sex-trafficking victims when such cases go largely undetected or unreported?*

Since 2009, the city has significantly accelerated its efforts to combine more-aggressive methods to take sexual offenders off the streets with more compassionate ways to help survivors reclaim their lives.

“…there has been no established laboratory model for studying the consequences of sexual aggression and behavior on brain function in females, says Shors, lead author of the study in Scientific Reports.