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On 17 December 2024, Vanuatu experienced a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake. 14 people tragically lost their life, half of them in the collapse of the Billabong Store. It was the largest mass casualty event our nation has endured in recent memory. Everyone was...
This Outcome Statement was developed on 16th July 2024 with 52 participants from 24 ni-Vanuatu civil society organisations. Its purpose is to supplement the review of the Beijing Platform For Action report (led by the Ministry of Justice through the Department of...
This booklet was developed with the mamas who were part of the third cycle of the Strong Mama Program in 2023. Among other things, the participants learned about nutrition and how to cook healthy meals using local ingredients as a form of self care. Eating nutritious...
On Wednesday 9th November, 17 female media practitioners came together to attend a forum organized by SISTA Association at The Grand Hotel, Port Vila, Vanuatu. The purpose of the forum was to validate findings of a survey conducted by SISTA to understand the current...
For one page Summary Click Here. For Full Report Click Here. Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature. Sexual Harassment can be in different forms, such as; Sexual assault...
Every family has their problems and everyone has different ways to deal with it. There is a difference between healthy disagreements to abusive behavior. Strong toktok hemi oraet nomo but domestik vaelens hemi ol fasin blong givim kil mo talem ol nogud toktok ensaet...
Vanuatu is a Christian nation where it’s widely believed that sex before marriage is a sin. Contraception and condoms are taboo and although sexual health is promoted in schools and through organizations such as Wan Smol Bag, it is still considered inappropriate to...
Violence against women is one of the most widespread violations of human rights worldwide. The Pacific – including Vanuatu- has some of the highest rates of violence against women in the world. Almost 2 out of 3 women have been subjected to physical or sexual violence...
Domestik vaelens (o samtaem yumi singaotem famli vaelens) hemi eni kaen vaelens we wan man o woman i mekem agensem wan famli memba. To read full document, Click Here
The 14th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women and the 7th Meeting of Pacific Ministers for Women will be held in Suva, Fiji from 27-29 April 2021. The theme of the conference and ministerial meeting is “Our Ocean, Our Heritage, Our Future – Empowering All Women in...
To read the full report click here. Introduction All humanitarian workers and disaster responders are personally and collectively responsible for upholding and promoting the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct. Implementation of the...
Wan bigfala warning sign blong wan unhealthy relationship hemi taem wan man hemi possessive. ‘Possessive’ hemi taem wan man hemi wantem full love mo attention blong yu wan nomo. Hemi no likem yu blong toktok wetem ol frends mo family blong yu, mo hemi act olsem se yu...
One of the first things a teenage girl is taught when she enters puberty is how to dress. So as not to give the ‘wrong impression’, a ‘proper’ young lady doesn’t wear particular clothing that is outside of societal expectations and if she decides to wear something...
In the first two and half months of 2018, police recorded 59 road traffic offences that involved collisions, crashes or accidents. Five of the accidents were fatal and most of the accidents were alcohol-related involving Hyundai buses and male drivers of between 18 to...
“We live in a society that teaches girls how not to get raped, instead of teaching boys not to rape.” Sexual vaelens hemi wan issue wea fulap pipol hemi findem no esi blong tokboat. Hemi important blong tok tok long saed blong sexual vaelens wetem family mo frens...
Taem yu singaot rabis toktok long wan gel wea hemi stap insaed long wan public space, hemia sexual harassment. Street harassment hemi wan form of sexual harassment wea ol perpetrators hemi usually ol man mo boe. Hemi taem wan man hemi makem rabis toktok long ol woman...
Image based sexual abuse is also known as ‘cyber sexual assault’, ‘revenge porn’ or ‘non-consensual pornography’. The former term is preferred as the latter terms are misleading. What is pornography? ‘Porn’ is the portrayal of sexual subject matter and the people...
Less than ten years ago, expectant mothers could stay up to one week at the maternity ward after giving birth, recalls midwife Marie Jean Baptiste Willy from Vila Central Hospital (VCH). Nowadays there are approximately 300 births a month and mothers and newborn...
I gat fulap man mo woman wea olgeta hemi no save wanem hemi rape mo wanem hemi consent. Taem wan man hemi silip wetem wan woman mo woman tu hemi wantem silip wetem hem, hemia CONSENT. Taem wan man hemi silip wetem wan woman be woman ia hemi no wantem silip wetem hem,...