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Webinar: Pacific girls and COVID-19
Pacific Women Lead Video
Roselyn Sidal, Julie-Ann Guivarra and Jacqui Joseph in conversation with Tara Chetty about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent girls in the Pacific region. The webinar also...
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Pacific Girl Song
Pacific Women Lead Video
Pacific Island adolescent girls participating in the two-day preparatory workshop ahead of the Pacific Girl Regional Stakeholders’ Dialogue in May 2018 wrote a song together to express...
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Advancing the Pacific gender ‘movement’
Pacific Women Lead Video
Hear from women in the Pacific explaining the benefits of gender equality interventions that are tailormade in, and for, the region. Members of the Pacific Women Advisory Board reflect on...
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Publications
Alcohol, Gender and Violence in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This short paper draws on research undertaken in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in 2015. It specifically explored the relationship between women’s economic empowerment and violence...
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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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Pacific girls under the spotlight at the United Nations CRC event in Samoa
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Seventeen-year-old Anamalia Falemaka of Talitha Project in Tonga participated in the UNCRC side event in Samoa in March 2020 titled ‘A dive into the Blue Pacific’. Girls like Anamalia...
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Publications
Women’s Representation and the Use of Reserved Seats in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Autonomous Region of Bougainville introduced the Pacific’s first parliamentary reserved seats for women system in 2004. While the system guarantees a minimum level of representation...
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Unlocking the opportunity in the Pacific menstrual health market
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report presents lessons learned from menstrual health actors working in the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the local context of island-based nations. It is a unique case-study...
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12th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
With the theme of ‘Celebrating our Progress, Shaping our World’, the Conference highlighted the progress made so far towards gender equality while recognising that the Pacific Islands...
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Women Peace Human Security and Development Update – A FemLINKPACIFIC Policy Brief
Pacific Women Lead Publications
FemLINKpacific is a local, regional, and national catalyst for change through the use of accessible media and information. This is FemLINKPACIFIC’s policy brief from May 2014, providing...
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Pacific Women Learning Exchange
Pacific Women Lead Publications
During the design phase of Pacific Women, the Australian Government facilitated a number of country and regional ‘learning workshops’ to inform the program design.
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Pacific Young Women’s Leadership Alliance: Summary of Online Dialogues
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Young Women’s Leadership Alliance is a network of regional, international, and locally based organisations working with and for young women leaders across the Pacific region....
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Building Projects, Building Women Leaders
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In Bougainville, women are changing community perceptions of the role of women as leaders by leading local infrastructure projects and using this experience as a springboard to other...
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Whole of Government Responsibility for Gender Mainstreaming
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Progressing Gender Equality in the Pacific program (PGEP) supports governments to improve their capacity to mainstream gender equality considerations and responses and to collect and...
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Pacific Women Design Mission Visit to Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Representatives from the Australian High Commission in Papua New Guinea recently spent 10 days in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ABG) as part of a Pacific Women design mission to...
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Media Release: Gender Advocates to Attend Adaptive Leadership Training
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Strengthening the voices and views of Pacific women and better representing their interests at the regional and global level is the objective of a pilot Adaptive Leadership Training to be...
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Mapping of existing legislation, programs and other mechanisms to support Women’s Leadership in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This mapping paper examines the environment for women’s leadership in the Pacific. It looks at the key international and regional gender equality instruments, domestic laws, regulations...
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Palauan Men Rethink Feminism
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In June 2016, Pacific Women supported two participants from Palau to attend the month long Regional Training Programme run by FWCC. After attending the training, the two counsellors have...
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Niue's Progress Towards Family Law Legislation
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A second draft of the Niue Family Bill 2016 has been submitted to the Government of Niue. The Pacific Community’s Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) assisted the Government of Niue to...
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Analysing Data Through a Gender Perspective
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Gender statistics help governments implement gender mainstreaming policies and support the promotion of gender inclusion in government activities. Pacific Women has invested in training...