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Thematic Brief: Women and Climate Change in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief provides information and analysis about climate change issues affecting women and girls in the Pacific Islands region. It has been developed by the Support Unit of...
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Thematic Brief: Women's Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief provides a broad summary of information and analysis about women’s economic empowerment in the Pacific Islands region. The summary includes references to associated...
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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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Pacific Brief: Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
UN Women Publications
Climate change is a real and growing threat to livelihoods, cultures, ecosystems and lives in the Pacific region. Gender and climate change are closely linked issues. Women, girls, boys,...
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Thematic Brief: Myths about gender equality in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief provides a broad summary of information and analysis about common gender equality myths in the Pacific and their underlying issues. The summary includes references to...
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Thematic Brief: Leadership and decision making for women and girls in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief provides information and analysis about leadership and decision making for women and girls in the Pacific Islands region. In the 2012 Pacific Leaders’ Gender Equality...
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Navigating Change for Women in Micronesia
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The inaugural Micronesian Women’s Conference was held in August 2017 in RMI with the theme ‘Navigating Change’. Participants identified opportunities and challenges in progressing gender...
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Changing Market Culture in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Addressing the multiple dimensions of gender inequality requires commitments by policy-makers, practitioners and scholars to transformative practices. One challenge is to assemble a...
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Pacific Feminists Working for Change
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The inaugural Pacific Feminist Forum brought together feminists, women human rights defenders and gender equality advocates from across the Pacific. Participants joined in three days of...
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Breaking Down Barriers: Coming of Age, Becoming the Change
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Findings from this study include: There is a knowledge gap amongst school-aged girls related to menstruation and reproductive health more generally. This lack of knowledge also extends to...
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Young Women Lead the Change in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
‘The [Young Women’s Leadership Project] gave me strength, it made me realise that I can become a woman leader,’ said Elma Vesiana, a young woman from Wakunai District. Her story is shared...
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Gender Research in the Pacific 1994-2014: Beginnings
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This study deals with research on eight critical areas of concern covered in the Revised Pacific Platform for Action 2005-2015: education, health, climate change and environment, economic...
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Pacific Practice Note: Opening Doors for Lasting Change – Gender Transformation in Practice
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Opening Doors for Lasting Change – Gender Transformation in Practice – sharing programming approaches that have led to gender transformative change in Papua New Guinea, to inform policy,...
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Inaugural Pacific Feminist Forum Launches Charter for Change
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Held from 28-30 November 2016, during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, the Forum was a dream come true for lead...
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Believing in Themselves, Pacific Girls are Leading Change
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Being a girl rocks! Girls from four countries came together to drive positive change for adolescent girls across the region at the Pacific Girl Inception Workshop. The girls spoke of the...
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Girls are the Change Makers - Just Ask Them
Pacific Women Lead Publications
When Samoa hosted the 84th Session of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in March 2020, it was the first time any United Nations treaty body held a regional session outside...
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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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A Platform for Sustaining Feminist Fierceness
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The reasons why the second Pacific Feminist Forum was important are as varied as the 150 participants who attended. The civil society-led forum brought together diverse, feminist women...
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Pacific Women Gender Transformative Change Brief in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This brief provides examples of gender transformative changes achieved by initiatives in Papua New Guinea. It describes practical, proven approaches for gender-transformative change and...
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Bridging the Gap: From Protective Laws to Real Change for Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Solomon Islands became the first Pacific Island country to launch guidelines and support for domestic violence counsellors, released in 2020. More than double the global average of women...