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Launch of the new FI-E-FI-A’a Fafine Tonga (FFFT) network to support and empower women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Local civil society groups signed a Memorandum of Understanding affirming solidarity in supporting government commitments to gender equality, and the participation and empowerment of...
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New ways of doing business in Fiji for initiatives encouraging gender-equal approaches
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Small and micro entrepreneurs, civil society actors, regional partners, government, faith-based and women’s groups came together to share challenges and different ways of doing business...
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Pacific Girl partners webinar for International Day of the Girl Child Webinar: Pacific girls and COVID-19
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pacific Girl webinar on adolescent girls and COVID-19, coincided with the International Day of the Girl Child on October 11. It explored the impacts of the pandemic on adolescent...
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Orange Day in Marshall Islands to stop violence against women and girls
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Women United Together in Marshall Island’s (WUTMI) believe that greater action is needed to intensify and strengthen partnerships to better address the issue of sexual violence and...
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Tonga and 19 Graduate Economic Empowerment Training from the Tonga National Centre for Women and Children
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Women’s Economic Empowerment training program is offered at the Tonga National Centre for Women and Children. It is supported by Australia through Pacific Women Shaping Pacific...
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The Public Service Commission and Balance of Power is inviting the public to visit the "Celebrating Women in the Public Service" Photo Exhibition in Port Vila this week, as part of celebrations marking Vanuatu's 40th year of Independence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The photo exhibition “Celebrating Women in the Public Service” was held in Port Vila in July 2020, as part of Vanuatu’s 40th Independence celebrations. The exhibition narrated in pictures...
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IOM and Australia partnership to improve women’s access to services in Federated States of Micronesia
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia partnered with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the Federated States of Micronesia to fund a new project that to...
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Tongan families being supported by Australia to help with crisis response and recovery
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In 2020, Australia committed an additional AUD203, 000 to address the needs of women and children through the responses to COVID-19 in Tonga. The additional funding was provided to the...
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Chuuk Women's Council Officially Launches FSM's First Violence Against Women Counselling Centre on International Women's Day
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Chuuk Women’s Council launched its new Tongen Inepwineu Counselling Centre, which translated means ‘Love of the Family’ Counselling Centre. It is the first crisis support centre for...
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Tuvalu celebrates International Women’s Day and calls for safer homes and communities
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Working towards gender equality is a priority for Tuvalu National Council for Women, a non-government organisation that has connected women across Tuvalu since 1977. In addition to its...
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Palau Women Entrepreneurship Forum highlights the business of culture and wellbeing
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Palau’s Ministry of Community and Cultural Affairs hosted a women’s forum titled ‘The Business of Culture and Wellbeing’ in March 2020 to raise awareness and promote discussion around...
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Pacific girls under the spotlight at the United Nations CRC event in Samoa
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Seventeen-year-old Anamalia Falemaka of Talitha Project in Tonga participated in the UNCRC side event in Samoa in March 2020 titled ‘A dive into the Blue Pacific’. Girls like Anamalia...
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Refurbished Chuuk Women's Council Building to Soon Have Domestic Violence Counselling Services - the first in FSM
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Chuuk Women Council’s Tongen Inepwineu Counseling Service responds to, and aims to prevent, gender-based violence (GBV), including domestic violence in FSM. Support from the...
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First Gender Equality and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Staff Workshop - Pohnpei Division of the FSM Department of Health & Social Affairs
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Pohnpei Division of the FSM Department of Health & Social Affairs held its first Gender Equality and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) training for new staff. The training aims to...
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Regional Counselling Training - Kiribati, Nauru, Republic of Marshall Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The first regional ‘Supervision Skills for Health and Social Services Professionals' training aimed to support crisis centre counsellors and caseworkers in delivering services to women...
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Inaugural Kiribati Annual Reflections Meeting for gender programming
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Equal opportunities, equal human rights and equal access to services for women and men remains a priority for Kiribati. This was the focus of the national Kiribati Gender Equality and...
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Women United Together Marshall Islands ending violence awareness for young people
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI) completed an awareness session with 85 young women and men to raise awareness around the issue of ending violence against women and...
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Workshop for Tonga women parliament members and potential candidates
Pacific Women Lead Publications
In the lead up to Tongan elections on November 30, 2021, a workshop was held to assist current and potential women candidates to become more effective candidates who are better able to...
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Hundred-plus people attend Pacific Women Papua New Guinea sixth Annual Learning Workshop
Pacific Women Lead Publications
More than 100 women and men from all parts of Papua New Guinea, the Pacific and globally were able to connect through various online platforms over five intensive days in August and share...
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Pacific Women hosts latest regional roundtable for Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE)
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) roundtable convened July 2021 generated critical discussions around gender and agriculture in the Pacific. Key presentations centered on the Fiji...