Amnesty International says Pacific Islands Forum leaders need to do a lot more than pay lip service to the problem of gender violence.
Gender issues have also been part of the Forum agenda.
Apolosi Bose from Amnesty says there's been a lot of talk about violence in Pacific homes, and leaders need to do something.
"Very little has been done about it, because one, you don't have the laws, two, which is more important, there's lack of political will. And then also the fact that police officers themselves to actually deal with it. In some of the countries of the Pacific , like Papua New Guinea, the police of the biggest perpetrators."
Apolosi Bose says recent surveys in Solomon Islands and Kiribati found that 75 percent of women have suffered some form of violence.
