Tag: International Women’s Day

By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist A proposed draft Police Bill in Fiji has come under intense scrutiny from civil society groups and opposition parties. The...

By Muhammad Aminudin in Malang, East Java A Papuan demonstration held near the Gajayana stadium in Malang city, East Java, ended in chaos with protesters...

Women journalists, feminists, activists, and human rights defenders around the world are facing virtual harassment. In this series, global civil society alliance CIVICUS highlights...

ANALYSIS: By Marcia Devlin, Victoria University Australian university leaders are nearly three times more likely to be a man than a woman. Of 37 public university...

By Talebula Kate in Suva While International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women, Fiji must not lose sight of the...

Pacific Media Watch Violence against women is at epidemic proportions in the Asia Pacific. The region’s governments, if they are to find ways of preventing domestic...

ANALYSIS: By Catherine Rottenberg A few days ago, I received a message from my son's secondary school announcing that it would be celebrating International Women's...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Hundreds of women's rights activists commemorating International Women's Day yesterday gathered near the Horse Statue monument before holding a long march...

By RNZ Pacific When the women of Bougainville march today to mark International Women's Day, the recent violence in Buka will be at the front...

By Rizki Halim in Yogyakarta Dozens of women held a rally at the Zero Kilometre point in Indonesia's Central Java city of Yogyakarta to commemorate...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Zonta Club of Auckland "celebrated change" through its yellow rose awards on International Women's Day today. Speakers included Michelle Kidd, QSM,...

By Jane Joshua in Port Vila Vanuatu's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and External Trade is proud to have two women appointed to the...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk To mark International Women’s Day tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a report entitled “Women’s rights: Forbidden subject” which sheds...

An EMTV report calling for a "breakthrough" in education for girls in Papua New Guinea. Young Papua New Guinean women and girls must be encouraged...

The women's march in Jakarta. Video: UNANews By Katharina R. Lestari in Jakarta More than 1000 Indonesian women took to the streets of Jakarta this week...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Asia-Pacific affiliates today demanded meaningful action against the growth of online harassment of women journalists in...

More than 2000 people took to the streets in Auckland at the weekend as marches for women's rights began across New Zealand on Saturday...

Auckland protesters, some chanting "Human rights are women's rights", marching up Queen Street to Myers Park in central Auckland yesterday. Video: Del Abcede/Pacific Media...

Samoa’s Rugby Union is encouraging more of its country’s women to participate in rugby. Sport administrators and gender equality advocates are seeing greater participation...

Women have been facing health and security issues since last month’s disaster, reports Ami Dhabuwala of Asia-Pacific Journalism. While the world was busy celebrating Women’s...

Workers in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung from the Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance (KASBI) protested at the city hall this week...

“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;...