Media Release
PRESS RELEASE: FWCC to hold extensive human rights trainings in Gau for two weeks
June 5, 2023
A team from the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre which includes Senior Counsellors and Community Educators Lavenia Tuitabu and Ilisapeci Maria, Legal Officer Lavenia Raisua and Comms Officer Semi Turaga, are on their way to Gau Island for two weeks of trainings and awareness sessions with both women and men. The
Violent Extremism by Police Officers Not Acceptable
May 18, 2022
PRESS RELEASE: Violent Extremism by Police Officers Not Acceptable 18/05/2022 Yet another viral video has surfaced online showing a police officer utilising disproportionately excessive and unreasonable force to obtain information from a bus driver in Labasa. Aggressively pulling, manhandling and threatening a man and passengers in the bus for simply
Lose your fear and become activists.
March 11, 2022
This was the message from Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator Shamima Ali to more than 100 women who participated in the Fiji Girmit Council Women’s Wing’s International Women’s Day event in Lautoka on Tuesday. “We have, at the moment, one great chance, elections are coming,” the human rights activist said.
Let’s work together to end violence against women and girls
December 10, 2021
As we conclude the 16 Days of Activism Campaign today, now is the time to redouble our efforts, so that together, we can eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls. FWCC Coordinator Shamima Ali said as the campaign intensified awareness on violence against women and girls for the
Male advocates commit to become agents of change
December 8, 2021
TWENTY five male advocates who were part of a dialogue on engaging men to end violence against women and girls have committed themselves to be agents of change in their communities. The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre concluded the one-day dialogue with male advocates from the Western Division at Lautoka’s Tanoa
JOINT PRESS RELEASE Launch: Gender-Based Violence Counsellor Training Package for the Pacific
December 1, 2021
Suva, Fiji– 29 November marked the culmination of progressing decades of work towards standardising approaches to gender-based violence counselling in the Pacific, led by the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) in partnership with the Pacific Women’s Network Against Violence Against Women and UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office. “In response to