IWDA Newsletter #68

Women Rise to their Feet in the Solomon Islands

Nukufero is a remote Russell Island village in the Solomon Islands. A particularly isolated region, the Russells have no roads, few phones or radios, and transport is by outboard motorboats – a mode which is both costly and too frequently hampered by high seas. The local Tikopian people of the Russells are characterised by strong “kastom” that very explicitly considers women inferior to men – so much so that women are forced to walk on their knees when in the presence of men in and around the home.

Also in this issue…

• Rebuilding women’s lives in Sri Lanka
• 3 ways to help IWDA fundraise
• IWDA Responds to Conflict in East Timor
• The Harmonisation Of Gender Indicators
• At Ferny Grove, Silence is Golden!
• Regional Workshop on Gender, Conflict, Peace and Security
• Resolution 1325
• Creating Opportunities, Improving Lives
• Could we be looking at a “future without poverty”?

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