Auckland, New Zealand – Thursday, 16 November 2017– A leading Pacific academic says knowledge of family violence in Samoa is limited to physical abuse. And, the concept of ‘grooming’ is barely understood or recognised. Tagaloatele Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) is one of four commissioners appointed to oversee Samoa’s national inquiry … Continue reading First national inquiry breaks the silence around family violence in the Pacific