Tag: Gender empowerment
RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi -- an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years --...
Deputy mayor pays tribute to ‘fearless advocacy’ of suffragettes 130 years...
Asia Pacific Report
Auckland Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson welcomed a large crowd on Suffrage Day yesterday to celebrate at a memorial to mark 130 years...
Samoa’s Brown Girl Woke initiative fights culture of silence on violence
By Leitu Fereti in Suva
The Brown Girl Woke initiative hopes to continue empowering Samoan youth in fighting against the culture of silence over violence.
Founder...
Brotherson’s new cabinet for Tahiti expected to be mainly women
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
French Polynesia's presidential candidate Moetai Brotherson has named four ministers in his proposed government, and confirmed he will vacate...
Want to support companies that support women? Look at your investments...
ANALYSIS: By Ayesha Scott, Auckland University of Technology; Aaron Gilbert, Auckland University of Technology, and Candice Harris, Auckland University of Technology
Gender equity continues to...
International Women’s Day – ‘Pink Shoes into the Vatican’ campaign
Asia Pacific Report
A group of "pink shoes" women in Aotearoa New Zealand campaigning for gender equality in the Catholic Church took their message with...
Females do 73 percent of unpaid housework in Fiji, says new...
By Wata Shaw in Suva
Females do 73 percent of the unpaid household work in Fiji, compared with 27 percent by males, says a new...
Women ministers spell out their plan to ‘rebuild Fiji as it...
By Talebula Kate in Suva
Fiji's new Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Lynda Tabuya, plans to use surveys and online platforms as an...
New MP marks milestone for Aotearoa – gender parity in the...
By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporter
The swearing in of Labour list MP Soraya Peke-Mason to Parliament on October 25 will mark a milestone for...
How the Taliban’s return has robbed Afghanistan’s women and girls of...
ANALYSIS: By Zakia Adeli, an East-West Center research fellow in Honolulu
Part 2 of a two-part series on the one-year anniversary of the Taliban takeover....
New woman MP in PNG wants action to curb violence in...
RNZ Pacific
The new MP for Rai Coast Open in Papua New Guinea's Madang Province, Kessy Sawang, wants immediate action to curb violence that has...
Women – just two – back in PNG’s Parliament but more...
ANALYSIS: By Orovu Sepoe, Lesley Clark and Teddy Winn
The results of the 2022...
Hope for women in PNG elections – Peter becomes lone female...
By Gorethy Kenneth of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby
If there is a glimmer of hope in Papua New Guinea’s violence marred national general...
Election of women to PNG Parliament crucial for future, says economist
RNZ Pacific
A Papua New Guinean economist says the election of women in Parliament will be crucial to advancing gender equality in the country.
Papua New...
Former National justice minister says NZ abortion law must stay –...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
Former National MP and Justice Minister Amy Adams says opposition leader Christopher Luxon is right to rule...
PNG elections: Female candidates try to prove parliament isn’t just for...
RNZ Pacific
The 142 women running in the Papua New Guinea election are hoping to prove that the PNG Parliament is no longer a male-dominated...
‘Make history’ and vote in a woman instead of ‘failed’ men,...
By Kolopu Waima in Mendi, Papua New Guinea
She is brave -- no other word can describe this Papua New Guinean woman.
Ruth Undi Siwinu isn't...
Australia has more women in cabinet than ever before: what difference...
ANALYSIS: By Louise Chappell, UNSW Sydney and Claire Annesley, UNSW Sydney
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first cabinet is Australia’s most diverse ever. Not only do...
Women MPs vital for PNG’s future, says campaigning Somare-Brash
RNZ Pacific
A female candidate in the Papua New Guinea elections believes it is more important than ever that the country has women MPs in...
Women’s empowerment ‘the key’ to building better Fiji, says PM
By Luke Nacei in Suva
It is the duty of men to uplift women and not undermine them or stand in their way, says Fiji...
Gavoka slams Fiji’s ‘shameless’ inaction over women’s rights
By Talebula Kate in Suva
Women’s participation in decision-making is fundamental to improving gender equality but despite making up half of Fiji's population, representation at...
Is the #MeToo era a reckoning, a revolution, or something else?
REVIEW: By Zora Simic, UNSW Sydney
“The world”, declares Laurie Penny on the first page of their new book, “is in the middle of a...