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SOGIE | Sexual Orientation Gender Identity & Expression Booklet
This booklet seeks to raise individual and community awareness, and presents an affirming, human rights-based approach to people who feel and act different from the currently prevalent norms of society. It also addresses and seeks to eliminate the invisibility,...
SOGIE Diversity in Vanuatu: Preliminary Study
This report presents the first ever study of people of diverse Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGIE) in Vanuatu. The study was conducted in line with the UNDP call that “inclusion of LGBTI people is imperative if we are to deliver on the pledge of the 2030...
The Impact of COVID-19 on SOGIE-Diverse People in Vanuatu: Research Study
This COVID-19 study was carried out by VPride at the end of 2022, with financial support from United National Development Programme (UNDP)and technical support from Human Capacity Development International (HCDI). The main question asked by the study is how COVID-19...
Improving Vanuatu SOGIE Inclusive Health Care: A Social Accountability Project
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 25, states that everyone has the right to health and medical care. Yet, research around the world has shown that for people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity – SOGIE, also known as LGBT- equal access...
Theological Pillars of Gender Equality
What is Gender Equality? Gender equality (equality between women and men - boys and girls) refers to the equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for male and female. Equality does not mean that women and men will become the same but that women’s and men’s...
Training Manual: Gender Equality Theology
This guide is grounded in experiences of Gender Equality Theology training that has been run in Fiji and Vanuatu. Delivered in March and September 2016, these trainings were organised and supported by local church partners and targeted key church leaders and...
Gods Vision For Human Relationships – Vol 2
Welcome to volume two of “God’s Vision for Human Relationships.” While volume one consists of studies which are based on texts taken from the Old Testament, gospels and epistles, this current volume consists of five Bible studies that are based on text primarily taken...
Human Dignity and Gender Equality from a Biblical – Theological Perspective
These resources have been developed and produced by Uniting World as a response to learning from partner Churches in the Pacific, especially from women’s fellowship organisations. Often in Christian communities the socially and culturally assigned gender roles are...
Gods Vision for Human Relationships – Vol 1
Equality between men and women begins from the very being and heart of God. This truth is seen and expressed through traditional Christian theologies. The studies that follow are built upon the theological-biblical premise and foundation of equality and dignity of...
Proceedings of the International Symposium in Vanuatu – Education Identity Cultures
The expanded version of this paper will look into the beneficial aspects of certain customary education practices and why their importance, combined with oral learning techniques, needs to be recognised at an early stage in the formation of Vanuatu’s proposed...
Research Report – Youth Digital Engagement during Covid-19
This research aimed to contribute to understanding digital engagement of youth in Vanuatu and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected young people in Vanuatu. The research was carried out in June of 2022, immediately following the February 2022 community outbreak of...
How Do I Receive Child Maintenance?
If you have separated or divorced from the father of your child, you are entitled to child maintenance. In Vanuatu, the legal process will be affected by your marital status. The biggest difference is that if you were married to the father of your children, the legal...
Organisational Strengthening Training Modules
PROGRAM DESIGN Module 1 Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) – the process of regularly investigating what a program/organisation is doing and the impact it is having – is a fundamental part of every community development program. Every organisation is expected to be...
Drinking alcohol – what are your rights and responsibilities?
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...
GO! Cyber Safety Booklet
The GO! Cyber project started with a series of co-design workshops, supported by Portable Design Studio, with young women aged between 18-30 years old to understand how young women and girls navigate cyberspaces. While there have been interventions to enhance...
Sex work, gender and developman in Vanuatu
To read the full report click here. Introduction Sex work seems to be on the rise in much of the Pacific, however remains illegal or on the legal margins, and there are reports of significant maltreatment faced by the Pacific Island sex worker population...
Information about Seasonal Work – WITTT ACTION PLAN
To read the full report click here. Overview During the comms trip to Tanna, Holly Miller, AA Australia, facilitated a planning session on Thursday 8th February with Women I Tok Tok Tugeta (WITTT) to establish a six-‐month action plan. One of the key concerns...
Risky Business Vanuatu: Selling Sex in Port Vila
To read the full report click here. Executive Summary In november and December 2010, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 18 women and 2 young men who had had sex for money in the previous 12 months. interviews took place in and around Port Vila, and...
Safeguarding Indigenous Architecture in Vanuatu
To read the full report click here. Executive Summary Nakamals play a significant role in the maintenance of kastom in Vanuatu, as well as having an important functional role in Disaster Risk Reduction in rural areas. Without better protection and recognition,...
Feminist Realities Our Power in Action – An Exploratory Toolkit
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Vanuatu Quick Guide to Womens Rights
To read the full report click here. QUICK GUIDE TO ADDDRESS WOMEN’S ISSUES DURING THE UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW ON VANUATU These Guides include: A list of issues mentioned in the National Report, the Compilation of official UN Documents and the Summary of Other...
Girls to the Front – A Snapshot of girl-led organising
To read the full report click here. Executive Summary It’s tough being a girl. All over the world, girls face multiple layers of discrimination: for being female, for being young and for the other multiple identities that define them, such as race, class,...
Engaging with Human Rights through Theater: A Case Study of the Vanuatu Rainbow Disability Theatre Group
To read the full report click here. Wan Smolbag (wsb) plays a critical role in the wellbeing of Vanuatu and Pacific Island communities, whether it is engaging youth in theater, providing reproductive health care, creating dialogue around good governance or protecting...