Research & Publication

Belated Listening, Delayed Healing – An Exploratory Study of Disclosure and Help-Seeking Practices Among Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse is a qualitative research approach to elicit and analyse survivors' retrospective narratives of their disclosure and help-seeking experience. With the support from RainLily's councillors and service users, 16 adult survivors of CSA were recruited from RainLily's service clientele and were invited for a semi-structured interview during the summer of 2019.

關注婦女性暴力協會於2019年6月至2020年2月展開「港鐵遭遇性暴力經驗問卷調查」，以網上問卷收集公眾在過去三年內於港鐵範圍曾經歷或目睹性暴力的經歷。是次研究目的是希望向社會呈現於港鐵範圍內發生的性暴力情況，以及公眾人士於港鐵範圍內的求助經驗，並探討可行的改善建議，以減少在港鐵內性暴力事件的發生和如何更有效處理性暴力事件。

The Association has launched the ‘Survey Report on Sexual Violence Experience in MTR’ in 2019 to collect public experience of encountering or witnessing sexual violence in MTR in the past three years. The objectives of the research are to reveal the current situation of sexual violence in MTR areas, as well as the experiences of respondents seeking help in the MTR areas. Feasible suggestions are made to lower the frequency of sexual violence incidents in MTR and more effective measures in handling sexual violence incidents are raised.

關注婦女性暴力協會於2019年展開「偷拍+未經同意散佈私密影像經驗問卷調查」，收集「影像性暴力」受害人的經歷。調查目的是希望增加影像性暴力受害人於社會的可見度，讓受害人知道：他/她們的經歷並非個別事件，而是普遍的現象；同時，藉著受害者的個人經歷，倡議法律和政策改革，改變社會文化。調查由兩部分組成：網上問卷及深入訪談，此報告根據問卷的回應以及訪談内容作出分析和總結。

Noting a lack of comprehensive statistics and analysis regarding the problem of sexual violence in Hong Kong, this study aims to gain a better knowledge of the issues involved and to help improve related coping strategies. A quantitative approach is used to investigate and analyse the 3,611 case records from RainLily's services database. Together with statistical descriptions of the demographic factors of these cases, a series of statistical tests examine the relationships between relevant factors, which helps in identifying the patterns of sexual abuse and nuances between different victims' needs.

In recent years, clandestine photo-taking has become a serious problem, with 285 reported cases in 2017 and 313 in 2016. One of the most rampant forms of clandestine photo-taking is upskirting, which involves taking photos or videos of a person from beneath their clothing without their consent. In the past three years, there have been 327 reported cases of upskirting in MTR areas alone, with an average of 100 cases annually. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg, as the number only includes incidents that took place in railway areas.

Due to the lack of tried and tested resources to tackle GBV in Hong Kong’s Ethnic Minority communities, we turned to overseas expertise and partnered with UK-based organisation Maslaha to produce this toolkit. Some of the examples used in this toolkit are from the UK, to provide a guide and model for best practice which we can adapt to the HK context.