Webinar: Violence Against South Asian Women

“Violence against women is a worldwide problem. According to the World Health Organization, about 1 in 3 women around the globe have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by intimate and non-intimate partners. In this presentation, Dr. Shamita Das Dasgupta, a professor, author and one of the co-founders of Manavi, the first organization in the U.S. formed to address the unmet needs of South Asian women victims of violence, will discuss violence against South Asian women in the U.S. She will review the nature of violence against women and the goals of advocates seeking to end it…”