Violence against women in the Pacific
Violence against women and children common in Pacific, says activist. The Pacific region faces daunting problems of widespread and entrenched sexual abuse and violence against women and children. violence against women and children was prevalent yet mostly went unpunished in Pacific communities, “whether it is in the home where a man beats his wife and children forcing them to live a life of fear, whether it is at community or village level where the pastor or village leader tells the woman to be a good wife and tolerate the beatings, or whether it is a national level where a politician or an MP proclaims that if women stuck to their traditional role, violence would not happen.”