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Pacific Regional ICDP Review
United Nations Population Fund Publications
This review looks at progress toward the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action’s goals on the following themes: Sexual and reproductive health...
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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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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 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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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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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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Revised Pacific Platform For Action on Advancement of Women and Gender Equality 2005-2015
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Revised Pacific Platform For Action is a regional charter developed and agreed to by representatives from all Pacific Island countries and territories. It has four strategic themes:...
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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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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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Pacific Girl Inception Workshop
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Girl Inception Workshop was held from 21–25 October 2019 in Suva, Fiji. The week-long workshop comprised the following meetings: One-day Girls Pawa Toktok with adolescent...
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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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Pacific Young People’s SRHR Factsheet
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In the Pacific region 56 per cent of the population is under the age of 25. Pacific young people have diverse needs, opportunities and experiences, living as they do across 20,000 islands...
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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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State of Media and Communications Report 2013
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS) State of Media and Communication Study is designed to provide baseline measures on the key evaluation questions developed by PACMAS across...
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Population and Development Profiles: Pacific Islands Countries
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report contains population and demographic data and development profiles for 15 Pacific countries. Four of these countries (Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) are...
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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...
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I Am Not A Lost Cause: Young Women’s Empowerment and Teenage Pregnancy in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report focuses on the experiences of adolescent pregnancy and motherhood. It highlights the challenges that adolescent mothers face when pregnant and as mothers. Over the last...
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The 2013 Survey on HIV in Tanah Papua: Gender, Ethnicity and ‘Casual Partners’
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This paper reports that in Tanah Papua (the western half of the island of New Guinea, currently comprising the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua), there was an HIV prevalence...
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State of the World’s Population Report 2013: Motherhood in Childhood
United Nations Population Fund Publications
Every day, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth in developing countries. Births to girls also occur in developed countries but on a much smaller scale. Most of the world’s births to...