facts & information

Key Facts
Place your mouse over each fact to view. Facts taken from Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network website. RAINN (Rape and Incest National Network) allows you to search by state and/or zip code in order to find the rape crisis center nearest you.



SFWAR INFORMATIONAL HANDOUTS



How to Support Someone in an Abusive Relationship
Warnings Signs of Abusive Behavior


How to Avoid Date Rape Drugs



Flirting vs. Hurting
Types of Sexual Harassment


Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault



What Have You Been Told About Rape?
Bill of Rights



OTHER INFORMATIONAL ARTICLES



Domestic Violence


Black Women Seek Protection Closer to Home


In Mexico, 14 Women a Day Die from Domestic Violence


The Invisibility of Domestic Violence



Survivors with Disabilities


Let's Talk About SexAbility


Barriers for Disability at Work


Sexy with a Disability


The Outrage is Grossly Misplaced


Sex Attacks on Disabled Girl Stun a Berkeley Community



Ritual Abuse


Acts Of Torture


How Cues and Programming Work in Mind Control and Propaganda


Seeing Inside The Ritual Abuse-Torture Co-Culture


Letters From Prisoners – Life In A Control Unit
Excerpt from Survival In Solitary.



Sexual Assault Against Communities of Color


The Color of Violence Against Women


Hate Crimes—Symbolic and Violent&emdash;on Rise Across U.S.


Rape, Pillage, and Ignore


Rape and Race: We Have to Talk About It


After the Brutal Murder of Maria Teresa Macias By Her Husband, Her Groundbreaking Case Challenges Law Enforcement’s Right to Ignore Domestic Violence with Impunity


The Marginalization of Sexual Violence Against Black Women.


Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism


Asian Women: Resisting the Violence (Published in: "The speaking profits us: Violence in the lives of women of color." 1986)


Facing Contradictions: Challenge for Black Feminists (Published in Aegis 1983)



Immigrant Communities


Immigration and Reproductive Justice: The Basics


Jailing Immigrant Mothers in El Paso


U Visa Regulations Released


Special Visas for Victims Remain Elusive Despite a Law


Justice Denied for Battered Immigrant Women


Anti-Immigrant Fever Ignites Violence Against Women


Undocumented Immigrants: Facts And Figures



Sexual Assault and the Military


Sister 2 Sister "Women and Militarism in the Democratic Republic of Congo"


Rape as an Instrument of Total War


Misogyny Rampant in the Armed Forces: 1 in 3 Military Women Experience Sexual Abuse


A Message from the Women of Okinawa


Rapists in the ranks


Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Iraq Assaults


More homeless veterans are women; Link to military sex assaults seen.



Sexual Assault in Prisons


Trivializing Prison Rape


Jury awards women $15.4 million for sexual abuse in prison


Corrupting Justice


Government Study Confirms Systemic Sexual Violence in Detention



Community Solutions to Violence


Indigenous Women Fight Back


Popular Justice: Guerrero's Community Police


Community Resistance to Immigrant Scapegoating


KQED Interview with Mimi Kim of Creative Interventions


Generation 5: Transformative Justice


Domestic Violence at the Crossroads




The Web
SFWAR Website


San Francisco Women Against Rape
3543 18th Street, #7
San Francisco, CA 94110
ph. (415) 861-2024
fax (415) 861-2092