Media Release
Alcohol is not an excuse – FWCC
April 22, 2024
The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre is greatly saddened by the tragedy of a bystander being killed while intervening in a domestic violence incident. He acted as a good citizen should but unfortunately lost his life. We send our condolences to his family. We still encourage bystander intervention by taking appropriate
PRESS RELEASE: HATE SPEECH LEADS TO HATE CRIMES
April 15, 2024
The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre strongly condemns the shameful and ineffective response by Police towards the brutal murder of 19-year-old Esther Ravato two weeks ago.
NGO COALITION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN FIJI
April 15, 2024
The NGO Coalition on Human Rights including LGBTQI+ community in Fiji are devastated by the news of the murder of Esther, a 19-year-old transgender woman from Ba and Lautoka.
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.