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Publications
Eliminating Violence against Women (EVAW) in Pohnpei and Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This three-part report contains a mapping of essential services for survivors of violence against women and actions, outlining the assessment of what is in place that needs strengthening...
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Dataset
Pacific Women Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Indicators
Pacific Women Lead Dataset
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacts beyond people’s health that affect different aspects of day-to-day life. All people will be impacted in some way and must adapt to the pandemic, however...
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Video
PNG Highlands Women's Human Rights Defenders Network
Pacific Women Lead Video
Monica Paulus from the Women's Human Rights Defenders Network (WHRDN) Papua New Guinea works in one of the most isolated and challenging parts of the country. WHRDNprovides support to...
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Video
Challenges in addressing Violence Against Women in Kiribati
Pacific Women Lead Video
How can we encourage community members to take an active role in eliminating violence against women? Do the police play an important role in this? Hear what EribwebweTakirua, Police...
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Video
Snapshot of Violence Against Women Research in Vanuatu- MerilynTahi (VWCC)
Pacific Women Lead Video
Vanuatu Women's Centre (VWC) Coordinator, Merilyn Tahi, elaborates on the services her organisation provides Ni-Van women and the research VWC has conducted on violence against women in...
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Video
Shamima Ali (FWCC) talks about Violence Against Women in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Video
Shamima Ali, Coordinator of the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (FWCC), provides an overview of the issue of violence against women it the Pacific, the drivers of violence and the importance...
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Video
This is my Dream (Jobecca Watinga)
Pacific Women Lead Video
What’s your dream to make life better? Jobecca Watinga sings her dream to be free to walk safely on the streets, with her head held high, without fear or harassment. This is the new...
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Publications
Women’s Economic Empowerment – Practice and Policy Implications from the Enterprise Challenge Fund
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This paper encourages a more targeted focus on women’s economic empowerment through private sector development partnerships, not least through a greater mutual allocation of funds, and...
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Publications
Swimming Against the Tide: Lessons Learned from Field Research on Violence Against Women in the Solomon Islands and Kiribati
United Nations Population Fund Publications
Lessons from the UNFPA’s process of conducting researching violence against women in Kiribati and Solomon Islands included: There is overwhelming evidence that the studies in the Solomon...
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Publications
UN Multi Country Study on Men and Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report provides findings from a study conducted with men in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea on their use of violence against women. The study...
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Samoa Family Health and Safety Study
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Samoan study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 37.6% of women who have ever been in a relationship are likely to have experienced physical abuse by their partner. 18.6%...
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Publications
Sorcery and Witchcraft in Papua New Guinea: Problems in Definition
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This short paper looks at how the terms ‘sorcery’ and ‘witchcraft’ are frequently fused or used interchangeably, and are rarely conceptually distinguished. This blurring of the two occurs...
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Vanuatu National Survey on Women’s Lives and Family Relationships
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Vanuatu study shows that violence against women is prevalent: Among women who have ever had an intimate sexual relationship with a partner, 60% experienced physical and/or sexual...
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Publications
National Study on Domestic Violence on Women in Tonga
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Tongan study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 79% of Tongan women and girls have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. 68% of Tongan women and...
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Publications
Due Diligence and State Responsibility to End Violence Against Women: Standards, Indicators and Good Practices
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The project aims to add content to the international legal principle of due diligence in the context of state responsibility to end violence against women. It seeks to create compliance...
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Publications
Kiribati Family Health and Support Study
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Kiribati study shows that violence against women is prevalent: More than 2 in 3 (68%) ever-partnered women aged 15–49 reported experiencing physical or sexual violence, or both, by an...
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Publications
Violence Against Women in PNG: How Men Are Getting Away With Murder
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The women of Papua New Guinea endure some of the most extreme levels of violence in the world. They continue to be attacked with impunity despite their government’s promises of justice....
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‘A Woman Should Be Beaten If She Deserves Punishment’: Conversations with Men and Women in Fiji and PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Among the consequences of conflict over gender roles or norms, the most disempowering one is violence against women. As part of the World Bank’s qualitative study informing the World...
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Publications
Mapping Paper: Private Sector Responses to Ending Violence Against Women in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This mapping paper includes examples of efforts by the private sector in the Pacific to address violence against women and provides examples of how States can begin to calculate the costs...
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Publications
Do No Harm: The Relationship between VAW and Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Even as the importance of women’s economic inclusion and empowerment is acknowledged and acted on, it is also known that such gains are not without risk; for increasing command over...