Pacific Legislators to Advocate for Gender Equality

Pacific Legislators to Advocate for Gender Equality

Recognising that violence against women is a human rights, development, economic, health, policing and family issue – the Pacific Legislatures for Population and Governance (PLPG) have appointed five national legislators as Champions for advocacy on gender issues in the Pacific.

The Chairperson of the PLPG Executive Committee, Hon Mapu Taia, Speaker of Parliament of the Cook Islands says PLPG is driven by the commitment to being active custodians in sustainable development, equitable engagement and accountable leadership.

It is believed that with these strategies in place, PLPG with the support of its regional and international Partners will strive towards promoting more informed parliamentary debate on gender issues, expanded gender equality policies and programmes as well as providing better support for equitable roles of women in decision-making through reform of legislation.

This article highlights the PLPG’s strong support and commitment to gender equality issues through approaches of gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment. MT.

For the complete article, please visit PINA.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 under E-gender.