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The consultation was a half-day session held at Seaside Retreat in Port Vila. The session aimed to provide an opportunity for young women to share their voices and collaborate to develop an outcome statement to contribute to 2021 Triennial discussions. Sista and CARE...
The Whitlam Institute is concerned that Australia’s past and emerging engagement in the region pays insufficient attention to Pacific perspectives – not only official positions but also the voices of ordinary people from across the region. The Institute engaged...
Indigenous Maori researcher and academic Linda Tuhiwai Smith reminds us that research using western frameworks “continues relentlessly and brings with it a new wave of exploration, discovery, exploitation and appropriation. Researchers enter communities armed with...
This report reviews the national legislation in six Pacific Island countries to identify existing biases or barriers that may inhibit the realization of human rights, including gender issues, for small-scale coastal fishers and fish workers. The analysis covers five...
This policy brief highlights the opportunities for Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) to include human rights principles in coastal fisheries and aquaculture legislation and identifies existing barriers to their effective implementation. Following the...
To read the full report click here. Executive summary The past 20 years have seen significant progress in gender equality being recognised as being an integral part of the economic, political, cultural and social development of Pacific Island countries and...
To read the full report click here. 1. About the PPA The Pacific Platform for Action for Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights (PPA): provides a roadmap for accelerating achievement of gender equality and enhancing the well-‐being of...
To read the full report click here. Introduction In 1994, Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) adopted the first regional instrument to promote gender equality: the Pacific Platform for Action on the Advancement of Women and Gender Equality (PPA)....
Pacific Parliamentarians gathered in Suva, Fiji, from 13 – 15 August 2013 for the Pacific Conference of Parliamentarians for Advocacy on ICPD beyond 2014, hereby release this statement for the upcoming Sixth Asia Pacific Population Conference. We, Pacific Island...
To read the full report click here. What is the Commission on the Status of Women? Established in 1947, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental organisation dedicated to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of...
To read the full report click here. Preamble 1. The 13th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women, hosted by the Pacific Community (SPC), was held from 2 to 5 October 2017 in Suva, Fiji. The theme of the Conference was ‘economic empowerment of Pacific women’. 2....
To read the full report click here. The Pacific Leaders Gender Equality Declaration was announced at the Pacific Islands Forum in August 2012 in Rarotonga. It brought new determination and invigorated commitment to efforts to lift the status of women in the Pacific...
To read the full report click here. PFRPD – Summary The Pacific Framework for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: 2016 -2025 (PFRPD) follows the Pacific Regional Strategy on Disability: 2010- 2015 (PRSD) which was endorsed by the first Forum Disability...