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Day of the Girl message: Natasha Stott Despoja AO
Pacific Women Lead Video
Natasha Stott Despoja AO, Australia’s candidate for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was one of three special guests who provided pre-recorded...
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Webinar: Pacific girls and COVID-19
Pacific Women Lead Video
Roselyn Sidal, Julie-Ann Guivarra and Jacqui Joseph in conversation with Tara Chetty about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent girls in the Pacific region. The webinar also...
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Pacific Girl and COVID-19
Pacific Women Lead Video
This video features girls from Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu highlighting the issues experienced by girls before and after the...
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Pamela (Equal Playing Field, PNG) - UN Committee on the Rights of the Child message
Pacific Women Lead Video
Pamela, 13, is a dynamic adolescent, head girl and an active participant in one of Equal Playing Field school action groups in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capital. She was in Fiji;...
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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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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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Publications
The Pacific Girl Journey
Pacific Women Lead Publications
More than 60 adolescent girls and young women reflected on the successes and challenges of the Pacific Girl program and shared ideas to inform future efforts at a series of virtual...
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Publications
Pacific Girl regional discussion: “Girls Agency and the Pacific Girl Journey”
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Girl regional discussion: Girls Agency and the Pacific Girl Journey was held in June 2021. Adolescent girls and young women involved in the six initiatives supported by the...
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Publications
Traditional Leaders Forum of Tuvalu
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Historically, Tuvalu has been a country where talking openly about domestic and family violence was taboo but national leaders have started speaking out against this crime. For the first...
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Publications
Tuvalu and the Pacific at the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The central theme of CSW65, held in March 2021, was women’s participation and decision-making in public life and the elimination of violence. As Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, Tuvalu...
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Publications
Tuvalu's leaders speak out against gender-based violence during 16 Days
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Prominent figures in Tuvalu took the lead during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in 2020, speaking out against violence in a national media campaign. The campaign...
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Publications
Pacific Women: Supporting gender-inclusive COVID-19 responses
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The impacts of COVID-19 are not gender-neutral. Women and girls are disproportionately impacted by crises compared with men and boys, and so both women and men need to be included in...
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Publications
Women United Together in Marshall Island’s (WUTMI) expands its support service for women to Ebeye
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Surveys have shown that one in three Marshallese women have experienced some form of abuse in their lifetime. ‘RMI’s rates of violence against women and children are staggering and...
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Publications
Training supports police in RMI to better respond to and prevent violence against women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Marshall Islands Police Department officers received training by Women United Together in Marshall Islands (WUTMI) to better respond to and prevent violence against women, with Pacific...
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Publications
Chuuk Women's Council first ever campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Chuuk Women’s Council, through its Tongen Inepwineu Counselling Center (TICC) counselling service, carried out its first 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, in...
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Publications
Training for health assistants in rural locations to provide more comprehensive, necessary services for survivors of violence against women and girls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
About 20 Chuuk State health assistant trainees completed a training course by Chuuk Women's Council's Tongen Inepwineu Counseling Center (Ticc Gbv) on 'Gender, Violence Against Women,...
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Publications
Adolescent Unplanned Pregnancy in the Pacific (Chuuk, Tonga and Vanuatu)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The "Adolescent Unplanned Pregnancy in the Pacific" reports present findings from Chuuk State (Federated States of Micronesia), Tonga and Vanuatu from research designed to shed light on...
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Publications
Pacific Girls YWCA's Rise Up! treats young girls in Solomon Islands with care and patience
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Girls Rise Up! project is based in Honiara and aims to develop the confidence, skills to earn a living and knowledge of over 200 at-risk girls to help them establish supportive peer...
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Publications
Pacific Girls YWCA's Girls Rise Up! is breaking the silence and giving a voice to young girls in Honiara
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Clera Tegu, a 17 year-old deaf girl from Makira Ulawa Province in Solomon Islands, is one of over 200 young girls involved in the Girls Rise Up! The project aims to develop the...
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Publications
Pacific Girls YWCA's Rise Up! project to expand to rural provinces
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Girls Rise Up! aims to develop the confidence, skills and knowledge of at-risk girls in Solomon Islands and to help them establish supportive peer networks and the opportunity to safely...