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Gender Violence & Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, PNG and Vanuatu
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as Fiji, Papua New Guinea nad Vanuatu and their communities and citizens engage with,...
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The Big Nine, your one-stop-shop for human rights conventions is online
SPC Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) Publications
This publication is a ‘one-stop-shop’ for international human rights conventions and other related documents. It is designed to be a reference for judges, magistrates, legal...
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Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Gender and COVID-19 in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Health pandemics have specific and severe impacts on the lives of women and girls. Since the COVID-19 outbreak first had reported cases, the gendered impacts began being documented in the...
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Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent girls in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief discusses five key messages about the emerging impacts of COVID-19 on adolescent girsl in the Pacific: Disrupted education: School closures have disrupted girl’s...
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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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Awareness, Analysis and Action: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Pacific
SPC Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) Publications
In the Pacific region, there has been some significant progress towards achieving the SRHR goals embedded in international commitments. The number of Pacific Island countries with...
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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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Pacific Feminists and Activists: Re-framing, Re-articulating and Re-energizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In this statement, Pacific feminist, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights advocates call for: Papua New Guinea State to repeal the Sorcery Act and investigate and prosecute all...
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Young Persons with Disabilities: Global Study on Ending Gender-based Violence and Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
United Nations Population Fund Publications
This study was commissioned to increase the visibility of young persons with disabilities to policymakers and advocates. It provides: An up-to-date analysis on the situation of young...
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Beijing +20: Review of progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action in Pacific Island countries and territories
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
In the lead-up to the Beijing Conference, the Pacific Islands region adopted the Pacific Platform for Action (PPA). Its purpose was to identify regional issues and priorities within those...
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Pacific Girls Speak
Pacific Women Lead Video
Adolescent girls in the Pacific face challenges because they are girls; and they can also be discriminated against for other reasons, such as having a disability or getting pregnant. In...
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Pacific Feminist SRHR Coalition Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The overall message of the four-day meeting was that there can be no realisation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for Pacific women without attention to issues of...
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CEDAW Pacific – Frequently Asked Questions
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This factsheet explains the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) by answering the following questions: What is CEDAW? What is the role of the...
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Equality Matters: Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment Strategy PNG program 2010–2015
Australian Government Publications
Equality Matters is a five‑year strategy developed to increase equality of development outcomes for women, men, girls and boys across the Australian‑funded aid program in Papua New...
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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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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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UN Women’s position of the post 2015 stand alone goal on achieving gender equality
UN Women Publications
This paper supports the case for a transformative goal on gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment. The case for a stand-alone gender-related goal, as well as addressing...
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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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A Deeper Silence: The Unheard Experiences of Women with Disabilities – Sexual and Reproductive Health and Violence against Women in Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Tonga
United Nations Population Fund Publications
Similarities across the situation analyses in Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Tonga include: Women with disabilities make significant contributions to their communities. However, while they...
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About Pacific Girl
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This document provides details about the Australian Government’s investment in supporting adolescent girls in the Pacific. It includes information about: The funded implementing partner’s...