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Human Rights and Gender Justice Toolkit
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This toolkit was developed through the project ‘From Gender Based Violence to Gender Justice and Healing’ implemented by the Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation in the Autonomous Region of...
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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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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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Reaching Rural Bougainville Through the Network of Women Human Rights Defenders
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Seventeen years ago, with just PGK1,000 in their pockets, the Sisters of Nazareth created a special place – the Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation – that today benefits individuals and...
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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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Thematic Brief: Ending Violence against Women in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief provides a broad summary of information and analysis about violence against women and girls in the Pacific Islands region. The summary includes references to...
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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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Law for Pacific Women: A Legal Rights Handbook and Supplement to Law for Pacific Women
SPC Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) Publications
This is a 2013 supplement to the 700 page 1998 text ‘Law for Pacific Women: A Legal Rights Handbook (1998) by Imrana Jalal.’ The Handbook and the Supplement examine legislation, court...
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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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Promoting Bodily Integrity and Rights for Girls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Since 2009, the Talitha Project has been empowering young women and girls between the ages of 10-25 to make sound decisions that will lead to a life free from violence. A grant from the...
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Thematic Brief: Ending discrimination on the basis of sexuality, gender identity and expression
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In the Pacific, diverse populations contribute to Pacific communities at local and national levels, with their own preferred terms for people with diverse sexual orientations, gender...
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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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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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Sorcery Accusation Related Violence in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This major research study into sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea found that over the past 20 years, an average of 72 people per year are victims of sorcery...
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Gender-Based and Sorcery-Related Violence in Papua New Guinea: An analysis of data collected from Oxfam partners 2013-2016
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report details data from 6,176 icidents of gender-based or sorcery accussation-related violence collected by seven women’s and human rights defenders’ organisations working across...
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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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National Study on Domestic Violence on Women in Tonga
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Tongan study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 79% of Tongan women and girls have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. 68% of Tongan women and...
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New Draft National Action Plan to Address Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In 2013, widespread publicity given to the deaths of two women accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea drew international and national attention to the problem of sorcery and witchcraft...
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The Role of a Family Protection Adviser
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A Family Protection Adviser is working with the FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs to support implementation of the Pohnpei Domestic Violence Act 2017 and the Kosrae Family...