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The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence has identified and focused on domestic violence-related homicides as a critical issue affecting Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander battered women since 2001. Shattered Lives: Homicides, Domestic Violence, and Asian Families establish the complexity of the problem and its far-reaching effects on women, children, families, and communities. This report’s goals are to raise awareness of the problem in order to counter denial and victim blaming; generate discussions that will inform culturally-specific intervention, prevention, and community organizing strategies; influence the field so safety for battered women takes into account an expanded definition of domestic violence-related homicides, and develop questions for future research.
