Jeffrey Sonis is assistant professor of social medicine and family medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches the psychosocial consequences of human rights violations. He has also studied the potential for mechanisms that facilitate justice, such as truth commissions and tribunals, for improving racial and ethnic tension, including in South Africa; […]

See a Feb. 23, 2007, article about a program from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to help victims of domestic violence. Contact Eric Hawkins.

The Awareness Center was the Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault, an international organization that addresses sexual violence in Jewish communities. It had a certification program for rabbis interested in working with victims of sexual violence. It closed in 2014, but the site is still provided for educational and historical purposes.

The Muslim Women’s League is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the status of women in the American Muslim community. Part of its mission is to create awareness about domestic violence within the American Muslim Community. It is based in Los Angeles.

The Peaceful Families Project produces workshops nationwide on domestic violence from a Muslim perspective. The organization is based in Great Falls, Virginia. Lina Hashem is president.

Sakhi for South Asian Women is a community-based organization in the New York metropolitan area committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. Contact executive director Kavita Mehra.

Read a June 14, 2012 Guardian article about South African transgendered runner, Caster Semenya, who won the women’s 800m run in the 2009 word championship which caused much debate in the media.

The Domestic Violence Research Center provides a list of national statistics on domestic violence.

Domestic Violence Statistics is an online organization that works to prevent domestic violence by providing resources and educating the general public on what it is and how to stop it.