American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
This site includes information on domestic violence law, safety planning, myths, and facts. For advocates, attorneys, and other legal professionals.
Faith Trust Institute
This site offers resources to help religious and secular leaders and organizations to understand the religious and spiritual issues associated with domestic violence.
The Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence
The Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence is a national nonprofit organization working to prevent domestic violence. It is the only program in the country founded by business leaders and focused on the workplace. Its membership is comprised of US corporations and businesses united to educate and aid in the prevention of partner violence.
DOJ Violence Against Women Office
This site includes a comprehensive listing of Department of Justice research and statistics, information on model domestic violence prevention programs and contact information for state coalitions, hotlines, and advocacy groups.
End Violence Against Women Web Site
This site provides advocates, researchers, policy makers, and others with comprehnsive information about batttered women throughout the world.
Family Violence Prevention Fund
This site has information for victims of domestic violence and their advocates, and provides information on the Fund's programs on domestic violence in the areas of health care, judicial education, and workplace domestic violence.
Let's Wrap
This is the website of the "Woman's Rural Advocacy Programs" based in Southwestern Minnesota. The site includes information on domestic violence in the lives of Native American women.
Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse
This site provides education and training resources for professionals, a searchable database on domestic violence and child maltreatment, and links to papers and research reports on domestic violence.
National Center on Elder Abuse
This site contains comprehensive information on elder abuse and the services offered by the National Center on Elder Abuse.
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
The Clearinghouse is a national resource for professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
This site provides battered women and their advocates with information on domestic violence. It also provides information on Domestic Violence Awareness Month and links to state, national, and international resources.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
This is a comprehensive resource for statistical information in a wide range of areas related to domestic violence. National Network to End Domestic Violence
This site provides news and information for advocates about domestic violence, and offers a national perspective on legislation and public policy, training opportunities, and more.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
This site links individuals to help in their area using a nationwide database that includes detailed information on domestic violence shelters, their emergency shelters, legal advocacy and assistance programs, and social service programs.
National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization
This link provides information on an organization committed through research, education, advocacy, and activism to the prevention, treatment and elimination of all forms of sexual victimization of boys and men.
National Victim Center
This site provides resources, and public policy information regarding rights and protection for all victims of crime.
Now Legal Defense & Education Fund: Violence Against Women Section
This site provides links to federal legislation, the National Task Force to End Domestic Violence, court cases, and publications.
Pavnet: Partnerships Against Violence and Abuse
This site is a "virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different Federal agencies. It is a "one-stop," searchable, information resource.
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
A useful site including statistics regarding rape and sexual assault, legislative information, and more. Also includes information on sexual assault of children.
Rape: US & Canada links
This site has a great deal of useful information on dealing with rape issues, including dealing with the criminal justice system and helping your friends deal with a sexual assault. The site includes counselor-oriented information.
Suzanne Pharr's Website:
This site from thoughtful and accomplished activist and writer Suzanne Pharr will include some of her writing and biographical information.
Transforming Communities
This site fosters sustainable change by building community ownership, promoting individual transformation, and fundamentally shifting the social norms that condone or support violence against women. The site has some unusual information/ideas.
United Nations Womenwatch
Learn about the work of the United Nations entities and inter-governmental and treaty bodies that deal with the advancement and empowerment of women and about international instruments on women's rights.
VAWNET
The research documents in the Violence Against Women electronic network have been put online in public access and provide an excellent base for anyone interested in current development, thinking, and policy related to domestic violence issues.
West Virginia Lesbian and Gay Coalition
The West Virginia Lesbian and Gay Coalition works toward equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens in the State of West Virginia. Every person has a right to live free from the threats of violence and discrimination regardless of sexual orientation. The Coalition celebrates diversity and is committed to breaking down the racial, cultural and class barriers that divide society, working toward the elimination of all forms of injustice.
Zisvaw
Zonta International is a worldwide service organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women. For 80 years, Zonta International has worked throughout the world to champion women's causes, and ZISVAW (Zonta International Strategies to Eradicate Violence Against Women and Children) is a crucial program. It impacts women and children worldwide, giving them the opportunity – often for the first time – to live without fear of violence and enjoy a higher quality of life. |