What is Domestic/Family Violence?
Domestic violence, also known as family violence, happens when someone uses control, threats or harm against a person with whom they are, or have been, in a close relationship, such as a family member, extended family member or intimate partner.
It is also a form of gender- based violence where women are more likely to experience violence than men.
Such violence can take many forms, including physical, sexual, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and economic abuse. A person experiencing domestic violence may feel fear, intimidation, loss of freedom and loss of control over their life.
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse’ – Family violence booklet for ethnically diverse communities
The ECVP team, in collaboration with the Ministry for Ethnic Communities, Shakti and Te Puna Aonui Ethnic Communities Network, has updated, redesigned, and translated the Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse booklet into 13 languages: Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Pashto, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil and English. This resource raises awareness of different forms of FVSV that can affect ethnically diverse communities and provides information on prevention and accessing support.
You can access and download a digital copy of the booklets in the language that you prefer by clicking on any of the links below.
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (English)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Hindi)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Punjabi)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Arabic)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Dari)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Farsi)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Simplified Chinese)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Korean)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Spanish)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Tagalog)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Pashto)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Japanese)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Tamil)
For resources in different Asian, African and Middle Eastern languages, click on the button below
Contact
If your life is in immediate danger please call 111.
OR call us on our 24/7 multi lingual crisis-line 0800SHAKTI (0800742584)
OR email: crisisline@shakti.org.nz
If not urgent, please use our contact list below and we will try our best to get back to you as soon as possible.
