General

• Women's Rural Advocacy Programs Providing Services for Battered Women and their Children
  WRAP is a collective providing services for battered women and their children. It consists of six offices serving six counties in southwestern Minnesota in the US. The web site includes information on domestic abuse including Why Women Stay, Types of Domestic Abuse, Warning Signs, Myths, National Statistics, The Effect on Children, Men Who Batter, The Power and Control Wheel, as well as safety plans and emergency check lists.

• Q-Web Sweden
  Q-Web Sweden describe themselves as a global communication network for exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas on women's health and gender issues. They have recently started an anti-trafficking project which is profiled at this site, and also provide an extensive resource base of information on Violence & Abuse, Empowerment of Women, Society & Women's Health, Sexuality & Reproduction and Adolescents.

• Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
  This site presents the work of the Coalition and provides links to efforts around the world to address the issue of trafficking in women.

• Sexual Assault Information Page
  Originating in the United States, this site provides a substantial collection of links on at least two dozen topics related to sexual assault, as well as a monthly newsletter (although newsletter production was suspended in October 1997.)

• Abuse Against Women - Documents
  Small database of text documents focusing on Abuse, Sex Abuse, Workplace Harassment, Rape. Mostly North American, but includes some developing country content too.

• SACOPS
  South African Communities Organising for Public Safety (SACOPS) provides an extensive resource centre. The Security and Safety section is particularly relevant.
  
  
• Speakout
  Resource for rape survivors, those who have experienced domestic violence, and those living with HIV/AIDS. The site has been put together with assistance from experts around the world and people in South Africa ranging from rape survivors to sexologists, forensic scientists, pharmaceutical companies, police officers and others.
  

• A Community Checklist: Important Steps to End Violence Against Women
  Concise and helpful article from the Community Policing Exchange magazine, published in the United States.

• V-Day Online
  V-Day was a North American celebrity fundraising and awareness-building event about Violence Against Women, held on Valentine's Day, 1988. This site contains statistics and resources for taking action.

• Violence Against Women Links
  Sponsored by the Feminist Majority in the United States, this site collects dozens of resources on: domestic violence, rape, violence against women, child sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and sexual harassment.

• World Conference on Family Violence - India
  Taking place in September 1988, this conference will focus on practical, sustainable solutions that can be implemented in different cultures to stem the growing trend of family violence. Call for papers is open till April 1, 1988.

• Violence Against Women: The Hidden Health Burden
  (Lori Heise, with Adrienne Germain and Jacqueline Pitanguy, Washington, DC, World Bank, 1994)

Links Compiled by The Women and Human Rights Documentation Centre (UWC)

• http://www.umn.edu/mincava/../vaw.htm
  The Minnesota Center against violence and Abuse has a site which lists a number of resources on the Internet dealing with domestics violence and violence against women.

• http://www.ama.assn.org
  The American Medical Association offers diagnostic and treatment guidelines and facts about family violence.

• http://www.s-t.com/projects/DomVio/content.HTML
  Investigative report on domestic violence is a series of 60 articles on domestic violence, published over a period of time in the Standard Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

• http://www.umn.edu/mincava/bibs/intl../vaw.htm
  International acquisitions on domestic violence is a bibliography of international articles on domestic violence from the American National Criminal Justice Reference Service

• http://www.igc.apc.org/apic/docs/sa9708.hrw.htm
  South Africa and violence against women is a press release and list of recommendations conconcerning violence against women in South Africa, based on a report compiled by Human Rights watch.

• http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/batter.txt
  The validity and use of evidence concerning battering and its effects in criminal trials is a document available from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.

• http://www.abanet.org/domviol/mrdv/home.html
  The American Bar Association Commission of Domestic Violence is a listing of resources available from the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence and other sites. For instance, it provides information on the medical community and the justice system.

• http://www.telalink.net/~police/abuse/index.html
  Domestic abuse page of the Nashville Police Department. This document is designed to show police how to see common characteristics in battered women, what are the potential indicators for domestic violence, how to make a separation safety plan, etc.

• http://justice.courts.state.fl.us/courts/family/violence/
  Domestic and repeat violence home page is operated by the Florida court system.

• http://www.ilj.org/vawa/vawa.htm
  Domestic violence legislation affecting police and prosecutor responsibilities : a 50 state review is a paper by neal Miller and can be read or downloaded from the Institute for Law and Justice.

• http://www.abanet.org/domviol/code.html
  Model code on domestic violence and family violence is a brief description of the Model Code which is available from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court judges. It is a useful document which can be received in full from the National Council.

• http://orion.law.pace.edu/bwjc/bwjcmai4.htm
  Pace University School of Law's Battered Women's Justice Center offers legal resources for battered women and trainings on domestic violence for lawyers in New York. This is an excellent site for legal information - eg. it provides a guide to a domestic violence interview by a prosecutor, and it also welcome e-mail requests to the center.

• http://www.lawguy.com/pada.htm#01
  The Pennsylvania Protection from Abuse Act and the New Jersey Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991 are available on-line at this URL.

• http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/demtd/domestic.htm
  Police practise prevention : a new approach to domestic violence is a description of policies for law enforcement officials regarding domestic violence cases in Massachusetts. There is a brief outline of a violence prevention programme to educate youth about domestic violence and provide skills to avoid such situations.

• http://www.cybergrrl.com/planet/dv
  Safety net domestic violence resources

• http://www.usdoj.gov/vawo
  United States Department of Justice's Violence Against Women Office includes press releases, a regular newsletter, research reports and studies, factsheets, legislation and regulations, etc.