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Fiji's rates of violence against women are "among the very highest in the world". [8] The Fiji Women's Crisis Centre reports that 64% of women who have been in intimate relationships have experienced physical or sexual violence from their partner, including 61% who were physically attacked and 34% who were sexually abused. [8]
The Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM) is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural organisation based in Suva, Fiji, that works to remove discrimination against women through attitudinal changes and institutional reforms. FWRM believes in the practice and promotion of feminism, democracy, good governance and human rights.
Fiji is a party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Although there is no specific provision in the convention on violence against women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women stated in their General Recommendation No. 19 that Violence against Women is “a form of discrimination that seriously inhibits women’s ...
Fiji became a member of the United Nations on 13 October 1970. [2] Fiji has acceded to some, but not the majority, of the key human rights treaties. It is a party to the conventions against racism (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) and discrimination against women (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women), and on the rights ...
The Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation is the government ministry of Fiji responsible for overseeing the well-being of women, children and the disabled in Fiji. [2] The current Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation is Lynda Tabuya who was appointed to the position on 24 December 2022. [3]
Fijian women's rights activists (4 P) V. Violence against women in Fiji (2 P) Pages in category "Women's rights in Fiji" The following 4 pages are in this category ...
The Fiji Women's Rights Movement was founded in 1986. "FWRM's goal is to improve women's domestic, social, legal, economic, health and political status in Fiji and to promote the equality of women in Fiji and in the Pacific Island Region."
The Women's Crisis Centre started in August 1984. The founding group met in 1983, when women of a variety of races, nationalities, religions and beliefs, got together and expressed a fear about the number of sexual attacks on women in and around the city of Suva. The group was worried about the lack of support for women.