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Pacific Girl Inception Workshop
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Girl Inception Workshop was held from 21–25 October 2019 in Suva, Fiji. The week-long workshop comprised the following meetings: One-day Girls Pawa Toktok with adolescent...
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About Pacific Girl
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This document provides details about the Australian Government’s investment in supporting adolescent girls in the Pacific. It includes information about: The funded implementing partner’s...
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Pacific Girl Highlights Booklet
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Girl Highlights Booklet reflects on the first three years of the Pacific Girl programme – its inception, context, implementation and learning. The highlights are drawn from...
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The Pacific Girl Journey
Pacific Women Lead Publications
More than 60 adolescent girls and young women reflected on the successes and challenges of the Pacific Girl program and shared ideas to inform future efforts at a series of virtual...
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Pacific Girl regional discussion: “Girls Agency and the Pacific Girl Journey”
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Girl regional discussion: Girls Agency and the Pacific Girl Journey was held in June 2021. Adolescent girls and young women involved in the six initiatives supported by the...
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Traditional Leaders Forum of Tuvalu
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Historically, Tuvalu has been a country where talking openly about domestic and family violence was taboo but national leaders have started speaking out against this crime. For the first...
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Tuvalu and the Pacific at the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The central theme of CSW65, held in March 2021, was women’s participation and decision-making in public life and the elimination of violence. As Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, Tuvalu...
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Tuvalu's leaders speak out against gender-based violence during 16 Days
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Prominent figures in Tuvalu took the lead during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in 2020, speaking out against violence in a national media campaign. The campaign...
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Pacific Women: Supporting gender-inclusive COVID-19 responses
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The impacts of COVID-19 are not gender-neutral. Women and girls are disproportionately impacted by crises compared with men and boys, and so both women and men need to be included in...
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Women United Together in Marshall Island’s (WUTMI) expands its support service for women to Ebeye
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Surveys have shown that one in three Marshallese women have experienced some form of abuse in their lifetime. ‘RMI’s rates of violence against women and children are staggering and...
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Training supports police in RMI to better respond to and prevent violence against women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Marshall Islands Police Department officers received training by Women United Together in Marshall Islands (WUTMI) to better respond to and prevent violence against women, with Pacific...
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Chuuk Women's Council first ever campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Chuuk Women’s Council, through its Tongen Inepwineu Counselling Center (TICC) counselling service, carried out its first 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, in...
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Training for health assistants in rural locations to provide more comprehensive, necessary services for survivors of violence against women and girls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
About 20 Chuuk State health assistant trainees completed a training course by Chuuk Women's Council's Tongen Inepwineu Counseling Center (Ticc Gbv) on 'Gender, Violence Against Women,...
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Adolescent Unplanned Pregnancy in the Pacific (Chuuk, Tonga and Vanuatu)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The "Adolescent Unplanned Pregnancy in the Pacific" reports present findings from Chuuk State (Federated States of Micronesia), Tonga and Vanuatu from research designed to shed light on...
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Pacific Girls YWCA's Rise Up! treats young girls in Solomon Islands with care and patience
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Girls Rise Up! project is based in Honiara and aims to develop the confidence, skills to earn a living and knowledge of over 200 at-risk girls to help them establish supportive peer...
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Pacific Girls YWCA's Girls Rise Up! is breaking the silence and giving a voice to young girls in Honiara
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Clera Tegu, a 17 year-old deaf girl from Makira Ulawa Province in Solomon Islands, is one of over 200 young girls involved in the Girls Rise Up! The project aims to develop the...
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Pacific Girls YWCA's Rise Up! project to expand to rural provinces
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Girls Rise Up! aims to develop the confidence, skills and knowledge of at-risk girls in Solomon Islands and to help them establish supportive peer networks and the opportunity to safely...
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Media Releases - COVID-19 set of 4 animations developed by Pacific Women and partners: Nauru, Tuvalu, RMI and FSM
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In a first for Nauru, a new video animation was released about the safety of women and children in their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Launched during 16 Days of Activism Against...
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We Rise Coalition power central to COVID-19 response
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Part of the broader Pacific women’s movement, the We Rise Coalition advocates for gender equality. Members FWRM, femLINKpacific and IWDA were joined by new members Talitha Project in...
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Launch of the new FI-E-FI-A’a Fafine Tonga (FFFT) network to support and empower women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Local civil society groups signed a Memorandum of Understanding affirming solidarity in supporting government commitments to gender equality, and the participation and empowerment of...