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This project arose out of the United Nations global ‘Lessons Learned Project’ in which the FWRM and the Pacific RRRT jointly examined the application of human rights based approach to legislative reform using the Fiji Family Law Act.1 As a result of examining how...
SPC RRRT is unique in that its programmed base continues to have a gender and a rights-based approach as its foundation. In 1998 RRRT was awarded the prestigious UNICEF Maurice Pate Award for its cutting edge work in gender and human rights and, in 2005, it was chosen...
To read the full report click here. Introduction At the invitation of the Government of Vanuatu, the Commonwealth SecretaryGeneral, Kamalesh Sharma, constituted an Observer Group for the 22 January 2016 General Election. The Commonwealth Observer Group was...
To read the full report click here. In the recent general election (May 2002) Vanuatu elected its third ever woman (Isabelle Donald) to parliament. In 1987, Hilda Lini and Maria Crowby were the first women elected to parliament of Vanuatu. Hilda Lini served three...
To read the full report click here. As a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Vanuatu has committed to promoting gender balance in decisionmaking and legislative bodies. CEDAW addresses the issue of...
To read the full report click here. Women’s empowerment and political participation are a matter of human rights. While the right to vote and contest elections is now widely available to women all over the world, the goal of gender balance in political institutions is...
To read the full report click here. First Settlement People first came to the islands we now call Vanuatu from the north and west, about 3500 years ago. We know little about those brave explorers and their descendants, the first ni-Vanuatu, but we may guess that they...