A Fiji High Court judge says the country's justice system is blind to women victims of violence.
Justice Nazhat Shameem says the legal system should look into this great social injustice.
She made the call at the opening of a week long regional meeting on Violence Against Women for law enforcement agencies.
Justice Shameem says many women and children might be forgiven for thinking that great pressure is brought to bear on them to tolerate rape, assault, corporal punishment and abuse.
She says domestic violence is driven by social attitudes, fed by financial inequalities and fostered by a blind and uncaring society.
Justice Shameem has called for the special training of police officers to deal with domestic violence.
She says they need to persuade their governments that family violence is a serious evil, that violence is learned behaviour and that children learn to inflict violence because violence was inflicted on their mothers and on them.
