The Pacific region, has some of the highest rates of gender-based abuse in the world.

Far too many women suffer physical and sexual violence at the hands of a family member or a former spouse.

But domestic abuse is not just physical. It can come in the form of emotional abuse — like controlling behaviour, isolation, and insults intended to damage a woman's state of mind.

This week on Sistas Let's Talk, Natasha Meten speaks to survivor and advocate Alicia Sahib, human rights defender Anne Pakoa and Renata Nataf from the Bible Society of the South Pacific.