Seven women have died due to domestic violence in the first 10 months of this year.

With 16 Days of Activism ending this Saturday, the Fiji Women’s Crisis Center revealed that it was attending to 1,732 survivors with 1,113 cases of domestic violence, rape, child rape, and other sexual offences.

Since 1984, the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and its branches have attended to more than 40,000 survivors.

Outgoing Fiji Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission Director, Ashwin Raj, says Fiji is recording a high number of incidences of violence directed at women and girls.

Fiji Women’s Rights Movement Executive Director Nalini Singh says they hope to create more awareness on gender-based violence.

The theme for this year’s 16 Days of Activism is “Ending Femicide”.