The 2021, 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is being commemorated in the Pacific by women’s crisis and support centres who continue to adapt and expand during challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Women’s crisis and support centres in the North Pacific quickly adapted to COVID-19, with new or improved telephone counselling, expansion of services to outer islands, and other support services, supported by Australia through the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) program. Pacific Women supports these activities at: Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI) in the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) and its Weto in Mour (A Place of Life): Violence Against Women and Girls Support Service (WIM); Chuuk Women’s Council (CWC) in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and its Tongen Inepwineu Counseling Center (TICC), and the Kiribati Women and Children Support Centre (KWCSC).
