Tag: Gender
Bandung women workers demand equal pay, prosperity and end to outsourcing
Workers in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung from the Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance (KASBI) protested at the city hall this week...
Meet the incredible women protecting their communities in disaster zones
An International Women's Day message by Holly Miller.
I’m writing this from Fiji, where a 30-day State of Emergency continues following Tropical Cyclone Winston, which...
‘Equal rights but we’re not using it,’ says new Samoan woman...
By Diedre Fanene in Apia
Ali’imalemanu Alofa Tuuau is a proud Samoan woman. She is the only new female representative in Samoa's Parliament, having secured...
‘I was told it was against kastom for women to be...
“Respect”, as Father Walter Lini famously said, “is honourable”. But despite the enormous social, economic and cultural contributions they make every day, Vanuatu’s women are rarely given the respect they deserve;...
Images: IWD Walk for Peace
For the first time in five years, WWW4Peace (Women Walk and Work for Peace), has extended the Peace Walk and celebration of International Women's...
UN agency to scrutinise Vanuatu’s progress over women’s human rights
By Rita Narayan
Vanuatu's record on women's rights will be scrutinised by a United Nations committee in Geneva from tomorrow.
The committee will review the country's...
Hilda Heine sworn in as first Pacific woman president
From Marshall Islands Journal
By Giff Johnson in Majuro
The ousting this week of President Casten Nemra, only two weeks into his term as president of...
Veteran Rainbow Warrior activist, global eco advocate to co-lead Greenpeace
This video interview with Bunny McDiarmid was by the Pacific Media Centre's Alistar Kata to mark the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the...
End sexism and ‘invisibility’ of women in the media
The latest Global Media Monitoring Project study reveals continuing severe disparity between representation of women and men in news media, indicating the portrayal of...
