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Tuvalu Study on People with Disability
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This study was a collaborative effort between the Tuvalu Ministry of Home Affairs, the Gender Affairs Department of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Fusi Alofa Association of...
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Presentation: Ten things learned about sorcery accusations and related violence in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Violence related to accusations of sorcery is a serious problem. It can lead to economic disempowerment, poor health, insecurity, persecution and violence, including torture and murder,...
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DevPolicyBlog_Family-protection-orders-in-Lae-some-positive-signs
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A report from Femili PNG and the Australian National University (ANU) shows that the issuing of protection orders by the Lae District Court is becoming more efficient. The data, was...
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First research into protection orders – efficiency is improving in Lae
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A report from Femili PNG and the Australian National University (ANU) shows that the issuing of protection orders by the Lae District Court is becoming more efficient. The data, was...
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Exploring the impact of family and sexual violence on families and children
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Researchers from Australian National University, University of Papua New Guinea and the Lae University of Technology explored the connections between women’s experiences of seeking...
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The Business Case for Workplace Responses to Domestic and Sexual Violence in Fiji
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Fiji has one of the highest rates of domestic and sexual violence in the world with almost two-thirds of the country’s women experiencing domestic or sexual violence during their...
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Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Gender and COVID-19 in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Health pandemics have specific and severe impacts on the lives of women and girls. Since the COVID-19 outbreak first had reported cases, the gendered impacts began being documented in the...
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Pacific Women Thematic Brief: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent girls in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This Thematic Brief discusses five key messages about the emerging impacts of COVID-19 on adolescent girsl in the Pacific: Disrupted education: School closures have disrupted girl’s...
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Ending Violence Against Women and Girls: Evidence, Data and Knowledge in Pacific Island Countries
UN Women Publications
This literature review and annotated bibliography synthesises material on the social context in addressing violence against women. It covers the following themes: Challenges in Addressing...
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Pacific Feminists and Activists: Re-framing, Re-articulating and Re-energizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In this statement, Pacific feminist, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights advocates call for: Papua New Guinea State to repeal the Sorcery Act and investigate and prosecute all...
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The Costs of Violence
UN Women Publications
A critical mass of information and specialised knowledge on violence against women costing techniques has emerged within the Asia-Pacific region. This report highlights selected regional...
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Promoting Gender Equality through the Millennium Development Goals
Australian Government Publications
The Australian Government is committed to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – agreed targets set by the world’s nations to reduce poverty by 2015. The MDGs...
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Beijing +20: Review of progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action in Pacific Island countries and territories
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
In the lead-up to the Beijing Conference, the Pacific Islands region adopted the Pacific Platform for Action (PPA). Its purpose was to identify regional issues and priorities within those...
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Communique: Fifth Pacific Women’s Ministerial Meeting
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
Ministers and officials responsible for women’s ministries and departments in 19 Pacific Island countries and territories attended the Fifth Pacific Women’s Ministerial Meeting in 2013....
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12th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
With the theme of ‘Celebrating our Progress, Shaping our World’, the Conference highlighted the progress made so far towards gender equality while recognising that the Pacific Islands...
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Responding to Violence Against Women in Melanesia and East Timor
Australian Government Publications
The report titled ‘Violence against Women in Melanesia and East Timor: Building on Global and Regional Promising Approaches’ by the Australian Government’s Office of Development...
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Solomon Islands Family Health and Safety Study
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
The Solomon Islands study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 64% of ever-partnered women aged 15–49 reported experiencing physical or sexual violence, or both, by an intimate...
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A Measure of the Future: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Risk Index for the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The reproductive risk index ranks 21 of the 22 Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) according to ten key sexual and reproductive health and rights indicators. In doing so, the...
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Pacific Regional ICDP Review
United Nations Population Fund Publications
This review looks at progress toward the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action’s goals on the following themes: Sexual and reproductive health...
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I Am Not A Lost Cause: Young Women’s Empowerment and Teenage Pregnancy in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report focuses on the experiences of adolescent pregnancy and motherhood. It highlights the challenges that adolescent mothers face when pregnant and as mothers. Over the last...