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Due Diligence and State Responsibility to End Violence Against Women: Standards, Indicators and Good Practices

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The project aims to add content to the international legal principle of due diligence in the context of state responsibility to end violence against women. It seeks to create compliance...
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Violence Against Women in PNG: How Men Are Getting Away With Murder

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The women of Papua New Guinea endure some of the most extreme levels of violence in the world. They continue to be attacked with impunity despite their government’s promises of justice....
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Women’s Representation and the Question of Temporary Special Measures in Tuvalu

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Only two women have been elected to parliament (currently made up of 15 members) in Tuvalu since independence in 1978. With some exceptions, since the 1997 Falekaupule Act the final...
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Hem No Leit Tumas: Evidence for Improved Outcomes in Solomon Islands – Summary Report

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The study unearthed a large amount of information about the delivery of adult literacy programs in rural communities, as well as finding some significant gaps in available information....
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Mapping of existing legislation, programs and other mechanisms to support Women’s Leadership in the Pacific

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This mapping paper examines the environment for women’s leadership in the Pacific. It looks at the key international and regional gender equality instruments, domestic laws, regulations...
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Mapping Paper: Private Sector Responses to Ending Violence Against Women in the Pacific

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This mapping paper includes examples of efforts by the private sector in the Pacific to address violence against women and provides examples of how States can begin to calculate the costs...
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Women’s Representation and the Use of Reserved Seats in Bougainville

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The Autonomous Region of Bougainville introduced the Pacific’s first parliamentary reserved seats for women system in 2004. While the system guarantees a minimum level of representation...
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Do No Harm: The Relationship between VAW and Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Even as the importance of women’s economic inclusion and empowerment is acknowledged and acted on, it is also known that such gains are not without risk; for increasing command over...
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Preventing Violence at Home, Allowing Violence in the Workplace: A Case Study of Security Guards in PNG

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This short paper draws on the views shared by security guards who participated in discussion groups as part of a larger research project that explores how men interpret and respond to...
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Transforming Workplace Norms in PNG: The Role of the Business Coalition for Women

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The link between women’s economic empowerment and the elimination of violence is pertinent in Papua New Guinea. Significant and persistent gender disparities limit the capacity of all...
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Developing Young Women’s Collective Action in Vanuatu

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This short paper reflects on the experiences of 38 young, educated women in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It finds that: Young women in Melanesia are subject to intimate...
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New Draft National Action Plan to Address Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG

Pacific Women Lead Publications

In 2013, widespread publicity given to the deaths of two women accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea drew international and national attention to the problem of sorcery and witchcraft...
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Home-Brewed Alcohol, Gender and Violence in the West Papuan Highlands

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The production and consumption of home-brew in the highlands is adding a dangerous ingredient to already volatile ethnic, gendered, and political conditions. While scholars have typically...
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Witch hunts in Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands Province: A Fieldwork Report

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The issue of sorcery and witchcraft-related accusations and violence in Papua New Guinea is receiving increasing attention domestically and internationally. A growing body of literature...
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Emerging Women Leaders in Solomon Islands: The Aims and Activities of the Young Women’s Parliamentary Group

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This research shows that the young women who are part of the Young Women's Parliamentary Group are working to advance women’s participation and leadership in a range of ways in Solomon...
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Changing Market Culture in the Pacific

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Addressing the multiple dimensions of gender inequality requires commitments by policy-makers, practitioners and scholars to transformative practices. One challenge is to assemble a...
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Papuan Perspectives on Family Planning, Fertility and Birth Control

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Papuan perspectives on family planning have historically emphasised political concerns that reflect the tensions between the Indonesian state and indigenous rights – Papuans have...
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Women’s Leadership in the Pacific

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Within the spheres of politics, the bureaucracy, and civil society, this paper examines the literature in relation to: obstacles to women’s participation, success factors, outcomes, and...
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Political Representation and Women’s Empowerment in Samoa

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Samoan women have achieved approximate equality to men in most modern spheres of government and the economy, but have never succeeded in winning more than five seats in the 49-seat...
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Bougainville Young Women’s Leadership Research

Pacific Women Lead Publications

For this research, 12 young Bougainvillean women were trained in research methods. Six teams of two women then undertook research in six districts, covering the three regions of...