Tag: Women in Parliament
What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
On Wednesday next week, the people of Kiribati go to the polls in the first of two votes...
Four women feature in Tahiti’s new Tavini Huira’atira government
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's newly-elected President Moetai Brotherson has presented a 10-member government, which includes four women.
Brotherson has confirmed his pre-election choice of Eliane Tevahitua...
Vanuatu may have first woman MP in decade, say poll reports
RNZ Pacific
A woman candidate appears to have won a seat for the first time in Vanuatu in more than a decade in unofficial results...
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...
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...
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...
No women elected in Tonga: time to change the story
ANALYSIS: By ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki
As in 2008, 2010 and 2014, none of the female candidates standing in Tonga’s 2021 general election this week have been...
Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach
ANALYSIS: By Fuimaono Dylan Asafo
Samoa's Court of Appeal (CA) ruled yesterday that Article 44(1A) of the Constitution requires that six women should sit in...
PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new...
By Barney Orere in Port Moresby
The five reserved seats for women being put forward by Papua New Guinea's special parliamentary committee on gender-based violence...
