Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse’ – Family violence booklet for ethnically diverse communities
The New Zealand Ministry of Social Development, Shakti, Te Puna Aonui (The Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention) and Ethnic Communities Network have updated, redesigned, and translated the Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse booklet into 13 languages: Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Pashto, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil and English.
This resource raises awareness of different forms of Family and Sexual Violence that can affect ethnically diverse communities and provides information on prevention and accessing support.
You can access and download a digital copy of the booklets in the language that you prefer by clicking on any of the links.

Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (English) (PDF 8.88MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Hindi) (PDF 6.38MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Punjabi) (PDF 7.62MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Arabic) (PDF 6.5MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Dari) (PDF 6.42MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Farsi) (PDF 6.43MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Simplified Chinese) (PDF 9.72MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Korean) (PDF 9.2MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Spanish) (PDF 6.39MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Tagalog) (PDF 9.05MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Pashto) (PDF 1.41MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Japanese) (PDF 1.6MB)
Our Culture, Our Pride: No Excuse for Abuse (Tamil) (PDF 1.46MB)