RECOMMENDATION 1: By legislation, establish a Family Violence Prevention Office, National Family
Violence Prevention Strategy and Communications Strategy, Family Violence Prevention Council and
Taskforce to provide the foundation for a coordinated inter-agency response to family violence.
RECOMMENDATION 2: Parliament should expeditiously give proper and urgent attention (and
implementation) to recommendations relating specifically to violence against women, girls, children
and persons with disability contained in the 2015 and 2016 State of Human Rights Reports provided
by the Office.
RECOMMENDATION 3: Undertake a study to document the prevalence of violence and raise
awareness of other human rights issues faced by fa’afafine, SOGISC persons and the elderly.
RECOMMENDATION 4: Establish a ‘Violence Free Village Programme’ which provides financial
incentives for the implementation of Family Violence Prevention initiatives based on Inquiry
recommendations.
RECOMMENDATION 5: Government to commit to remove section 14 of the Infants Ordinance 1961
and to consult appropriately. Gradually move to ban corporal punishment and harsh verbal
punishment in homes.
RECOMMENDATION 6: Re-establish the Fa’asamoa practice of effective communication between
parent and child.
RECOMMENDATION 7: Promote a gender equal approach to parenting based on the Fa’asamoa and
human rights to address patriarchy, female subservience and male sexual entitlement.
RECOMMENDATION 8: Place gender equality at the forefront of the objectives of the Samoa Family
Violence Prevention Office and develop activities and measures to modify the social and cultural
patterns of conduct of men and women to eliminate patriarchal attitudes of male superiority, and
monitor long-term impact.
RECOMMENDATION 9: Address misconceptions around the Fa’asamoa which further gender
inequality and contribute to family violence and identify and implement ways in which it can prevent
and protect against family violence.
RECOMMENDATION 10: Develop a public theology on family violence, which addresses Biblical
misinterpretations that reinforce gender inequality and violence.
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