Leaders of Pacific Island countries have introduced new initiatives to tackle violence against women – but they're largely missing the mark.
A woman speaks out in a meeting of men. Photo: Ali Rae.
Have efforts to improve the policing of violence against women, in Pacific Island societies, increased women’s safety? Between 2015 and 2016 I conducted field research on precisely this question, in Fiji, Bougainville and New Caledonia.
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