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Yoshiki Yamaguchi-Chapelle Joins the Pacific Women Advisory Board
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Yoshiko Yamaguchi-Capelle is the first young Pacific Island woman to be appointed to the Pacific Women Advisory Board. She was nominated to the Board through the Pacific Young Women’s...
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Working Together to Implement Domestic Violence Legislation Across the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
High-level government representatives from 11 Pacific Island countries are sharing strategies to further improve implementation of domestic violence legislation. The representatives...
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Women's Groups Lead Response to COVID 19 Crisis
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Ensuring no one is left behind remains a priority with the COVID-19 response and early recovery efforts. ‘As people with disabilities, the most critical thing was our safety and...
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Women's Economic Empowerment and COVID 19 in the Pacific: Webinar 1
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia has committed USD150,000 to support the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) in improving access to essential products and services for women...
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Women’s Leadership: A Conversation With Niki Rattle
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Promoting women in leadership in formal and informal spaces as well as across the public, private and community sectors has been a longstanding challenge in the Pacific. According to...
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Women Taking the Lead to Develop and Critically Review Future Gender Equality Projects for Fiji
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Almost 80 grant recipients working on Fiji projects to improve gender equality have gathered in Suva, from women mushroom farmers to crisis service providers and Pacific Girl adolescent...
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Women Human Rights Defenders and Male Advocates: Promoting Ownership and Extending the Reach of Information
Pacific Women Lead Publications
he ‘From Gender Based Violence to Gender Justice and Healing’ project implemented by the Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation (the Nazareth Centre) aims to reduce family and sexual violence...
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Women Human Rights Defenders and Male Advocates Making A Different in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Sisters of Nazareth have been implementing the “From Gender Based Violence to Gender Justice and Healing” project in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea for two...
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Women Handicraft and Market Entrepreneurs Focus on Locals
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Women’s markets provide an opportunity for micro-entrepreneurs to sell their wares, share best practices and network during this COVID-19 response period. Eseta Nadakuitavuki, Chair of...
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Women Civil Society Leaders Discuss Ways to Fast Track Progress on Gender Equality in Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Women leaders of civil society organisations and representatives of government and academia met with the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), Dame Meg...
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Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC) Tonga Turns 5
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Director of the Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC) Tonga, and her staff, deal with cases of domestic violence, rape, incest and other forms of sexual and physical abuse involving...
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Why Women’s Coalitions Are Important for Achieving Gender Equality: Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Ms Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, FemLINKPACIFIC’s Executive Director and a co-convener of the Fiji Women’s Forum talks about the importance of women’s coalitions for the pursuit of gender equality.
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Why Are There No Women in Papua New Guinea’s Parliament?
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Papua New Guinea has a history of extremely low rates of women in parliament. Only seven women have ever been elected in over 40 years and no women were elected to the 111 seat parliament...
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Whit Ribbon Day: International Day for Elimination of violence Against Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
To mark White Ribbon Day, Australia’s Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja will host a regional dialogue in Fiji with business representatives, entrepreneurs and...
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What We Can Learn From the Women Human Rights Defenders in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A learning brief produced by International Women’s Development Agency documents lessons learned about working with women human rights defenders in Bougainville. These women are working...
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We Don’t Whisper Anymore - Ending Violence Against Women in the North Pacific Photobook
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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We Don’t Whisper Anymore - Ending Violence Against Women in the North Pacific Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
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Tuvalu Welcomes Gender and Social Inclusion Support
Pacific Women Lead Publications
As part of its commitment to advancing gender equality, Pacific Women has supported the engagement of gender advisers to Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, and Tuvalu to support the implementation of...
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Tuvalu Launches First Comprehensive Study on Persons With A Disability
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Demonstrating its commitment to ‘leave no one behind’, the Government of Tuvalu has completed and launched the country’s first comprehensive national study on persons with a disability.
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Tuvalu Country Plan Close to Endorsement
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Tuvalu is about to endorse its first Pacific Women country plan. This country plan will be implemented over a three-year period, from 2015 to 2018, with estimated funding of up to $1.8...