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Learning Exchanges and Preparatory Electoral Contestant Workshops for Women Leaders
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The implementation of TSM legislation for women to be elected into councils at municipal level in Vanuatu ensures a minimum 30 percent representation of women. Activities supported by...
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Pacific Women's Parliamentary Partnerships Lead to a Action on Diabetes Epidemic
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Hon Dr Puakena Boreham, Tuvalu’s only woman MP and the Hon Judi Moylan, a former member of the Australian House of Representatives, have formed a partnership that is positively...
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Women Climate Change Negotiators Speak Out About Pacific Issues
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Rising oceans highlight how climate change is affecting the Pacific. The Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) promotes women’s climate change leadership. Pacific Women...
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Using Faith-Based Approaches to Progress Human Rights and Gender Equality
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women is supporting UnitingWorld’s Partnering Women for Change project that uses biblical interpretations to progress human rights and gender equality. The project supports...
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Protecting Girls and Boys from Violence in Nauru
Pacific Women Lead Publications
There is ongoing commitment in Nauru to protect children from violence. The government has enacted the Child Protection and Welfare Act 2016 and the Domestic Violence and Family...
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Helping Duty Bearers to Uphold Their Responsibilities
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Duty bearers are some of the many being supported by Pacific Women partners to better serve women and children. Across countries, partners are addressing social norms that may act as a...
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Faith Communities Say No to Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pastor Tura is the first female lecturer at Seghe Theological College in Solomon Islands. Using materials developed by UnitingWorld, she is teaching ‘gender equality theology’ to her...
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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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Meet PNG’s Governor Julie Soso Akeke
Pacific Women Lead Publications
At the third Pacific Women’s Parliamentary Partnerships forum, Pacific Women had the opportunity to meet with many of the Pacific women parliamentarians gathered for the three-day forum...
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Country Brief Niue: A Snapshot of Project Highlights
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Through a 10-year commitment, Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) connects more than 170 gender equality initiatives supported by Australia and implemented by over...
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Video
Working for Change
Pacific Women Lead Video
Produced for the Pacific Women Regional Learning Forum on Women's Economic Empowerment, 'Working For Change' set the scene for three days of discussion. The seven-minute video highlights...
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Video
Women's Economic Empowerment and COVID-19 in the Pacific: Webinar
Pacific Women Lead Video
This webinar aimed to identify measures for a gender-aware and feminist response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls in the Pacific. It also sought to broaden a...
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Pacific Markets and Market Vendors: Evidence, Data and Knowledge in Pacific Island Countries
UN Women Publications
This literature review and annotated bibliography regarding markets and market traders in the Pacific Island region has been grouped into the following topics: Nature and extent of market...
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A Measure of the Future: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Risk Index for the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The reproductive risk index ranks 21 of the 22 Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) according to ten key sexual and reproductive health and rights indicators. In doing so, the...
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Campaigning as a Woman
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The 2015 Bougainville General Election was significant for women’s political participation in Bougainville. It was only the third election to be held in Bougainville, and represented the...
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Pacific Women Bougainville Performance Report 2017-2018
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women program activities support the Bougainville Gender Investment Plan, which prioritises the following objectives: Reducing family and sexual violence and assist survivors of...
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Inaugural Meeting of the Pacific Women Advisory Group on Research Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Women Advisory Group on Research is comprised of specialists in gender research expertise who have interest in the Pacific region including representatives of research...
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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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Optimising technical Assistance Through Partnership
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women and SPC are trialling an innovative technical assistance model through the joint engagement of a gender equality adviser. The adviser, employed by SPC, supports both Pacific...
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A Platform of Action for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The theme at the 13th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women and 6th Meeting of Pacific Ministers for Women held in Suva in October 2017 was the importance of women’s economic empowerment...