Pacific Regional Network on Gender-based Violence marks 20 year

NADI, Fiji (12 November 2012) – Twenty years after a handful of women from around the Pacific first gathered in Suva to discuss the problem of sexual and gender-based violence, the sixth quadrennial regional meeting to discuss the issue was opened in Nadi today by Australia’s Global Ambassador for Women and Girls, Penny Williams.

Organised by the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre, the four-yearly meeting brings together members of the Pacific Women’s Network Against Violence Against Women established in 1992 to better coordinate the efforts to eliminate sexual and gender-based violence.

This year’s regional meeting is aimed at examining ways of responding to and preventing violence against women and girls, as well as how these women and girls can access justice.

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