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Thematic Brief: Women, peace and security in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief provides information and analysis about women, peace and security in the Pacific Islands region. The brief has been written for the Support Unit of Pacific Women...
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Safe Working Conditions Make Markets a Happy, Healthy Place
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Between 75–90 per cent of all market vendors in the Pacific region are women. The hours are long, and vendors often travel from rural areas to sell their products to a larger market....
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Bougainville Young Women’s Leadership Research
Pacific Women Lead Publications
For this research, 12 young Bougainvillean women were trained in research methods. Six teams of two women then undertook research in six districts, covering the three regions of...
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Actions and Impacts for a Peaceful Pacific: 2015 and Beyond
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This publication brings together the perspectives of women involved in the Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency of Bougainville, Vois Blong Mere Solomon of Solomon Islands and Ma’a...
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Review of Gender and Infrastructure (2016)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This review involved a desk review of policies and project documents and consultations with Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) agency representatives and staff from other...
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Improving the Marketing and Financial Literacy of Market Vendors
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Between 75 and 90 percent of market vendors in the Pacific region are women. The money earned by these women is often pivotal in paying for important family expenses such as children’s...
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Pacific Models of Male Advocacy Working to End Violence Against Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women supports a range of activities that enable male advocates to be agents of change to end violence against women in communities across Pacific Island countries. The Male...
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Video
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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Video
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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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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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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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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Rio+20: Important Issues for Pacific Island Women
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
Pacific Islands Forum Leaders have acknowledged the importance of gender equality through the Pacific Plan and in various Forum Communiqués. The purpose of this brief is to draw the...
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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....