As a part of Domestic Violence awareness month, City Hall drew attention to the cultural, financial and language barriers that put immigrant women at high risk for gender-based violence during a vigil on Tuesday.
The event spotlighted Turning Point, a southeast Queens-based organization empowering Muslim women and girls affected by domestic violence, whom Council Speaker Adriene Adams invited to the City Hall steps to hold the vigil instead of its usual spot in Jamaica’s Rufus King Park.
“In Pakistani and South Asian communities domestic abuse and divorce are still stigmatized,” said Erum Hanif, the executive director of APNA, a Brooklyn community center. “Many of these victims are recent immigrants, limited English proficient, do not have access to the outside world, do not have any support system — families or friends — outside the house of their abusers. They are completely unaware about their rights, immigration, the resources which are out there for them.
“It takes a long time to get out. A lot of people think it’s going to be easy to just walk out the door, but the shackles are keeping us back there… Our children, society, income, education and so forth,” Ahsan said.
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