Tag: International Women’s Day
Samoan women score a try for gender empowerment
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...
Long after Cyclone Winston, Fiji women struggle for basic needs
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...
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...
‘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;...
IFJ criticises high levels of gender discrimination, violence in media
In a report to be released today on International Women’s Day, the Gender Council of the International Federation of Journalists highlights high levels of...
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...
