172 articles tagged "fwcc"
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator, Shamima Ali says they continue to receive cases of violence against women on a daily basis and the COVID-19 crisis has made matters worse. Ali says as we mark the start of
Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Mereseini Vuniwaqa says violence against women and girls is rooted in gender-based discrimination and social norms that perpetuate such violence in the country.
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator Shamima Ali says police officers usually go for reconciliation when there is a domestic violence case without realising the risk it poses to the lives of women. While handi
Fiji Women Crisis Centre’s Male Advocate Tevita Seruilumi says some religious groups are often misinterpreting marriage vows to keep women in violent relationships and failing to take action on reports of violence aga
Acting Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu today admitted that they need to do more to improve how they deal with victims of gender-based violence. While speaking to 36 officers from the Southern Division Command G
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator, Shamima Ali has revealed that she was diagnosed with two types of cancer. Speaking as a survivor, she says she was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2008 and lung cancer in 2
Women’s human rights groups have stated that they are disgusted and appalled at the misogynistic attacks made by Kishore Kumar on social media against female members of Parliament and strongly condemn this act of viol
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator Shamima Ali today shared her personal experience about domestic violence in her life as she spoke to Bank South Pacific Fiji executives about addressing gender-based violence and
Bank South Pacific Fiji Group made a donation of $5,000 each to the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and Lifeline Fiji today. BSP Head of Branch Network Kamini Mani says they hope the money will be used to help as many
The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre has congratulated Jacinda Ardern for being re-elected as New Zealand’s Prime Minister for a second term in a landslide election victory last night. Centre Coordinator Shamima Ali
The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre has called on the Minister for Local Government, Premila Kumar to have some respect and be more considerate while making public statements after Kumar said that she has been informed tha
The Fiji Women's Crisis Centre has received 751 reports of violence against women and children for the first seven months of this year. It says this includes 421 domestic violence cases. According to the FWCC,
