[1] The VWC campaigned in 2005 for the Vanuatu Parliament to ratify the Family Protection Bill after a ten-year process of consultation with communities.

[6] It also aimed to identify coping strategies that women use, risk and protective factors within communities, as well as the implications of and need for support services.

[8] The provision of counselling for women in Vanuatu is a major aspect of VWC's work and in the 2018 financial year alone it provided 6574 sessions for 1811 clients.

[10] The helpline is free to call and also offers support and counselling to women and girls who are experiencing other forms of trauma.

[8] During the 1990s the organisation had to strike a careful balance between its work as a women's rights organisation and resisting the label of 'feminist' due to anti-Western attitudes towards feminism in Vanuatu, which were described by anthropologist, Bronwen Douglas, in the following way: "feminism and activist remain dirty words, laden with connotations of heartless globalization and irreligion".