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Where are the women in local government in Fiji?
Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Although we are currently witnessing a increase in commitments to gender equality on regional and national agendas, there is an apparent apathy towards understanding the role and contribution of women
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One Just World Forum – 05/05/10 – Chippendale, NSW – Seymour Centre (York Theatre)
Friday, April 16th, 2010
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Event
One JUst World Forum
When
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
6:30pm
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All Ages
Where
Seymour Centre (York Theatre) (map)
The University of Sydney
Cnr City Rd & Cleveland St
Chippendale, NSW
Other InfoIWDA is pleased to invite you to a
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Pacific Roadtrip – Jane Sloane
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
I’ve just returned from three weeks travelling among our Pacific partners, three weeks filled with vivid and powerful stories and meeting inspirational women. I’ve been writing an online journal on
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Solidarity is Powerful – Jane Sloane
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Solidarity is Powerful
I am in Suva in Fiji, spending time with a dozen women from informal settlements and squatter communities who are part of the feminist community organization, Women’s Action for Change (WAC).
Over the past four years, over 250 women have been quietly building a sustainable network of women community organisers in 15 informal settlements in Fiji. They are actively making decisions on the training they require, collectively evaluating the program, doing fundraising and micro-enterprise work, and increasingly taking up decision-making positions within their own family groups, communities and networks, and at WAC.
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Radio Peace – Jane Sloane
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Radio Peace
IWDA ED Jane Sloane is currently visiting some of IWDA’s partners in the Pacific.
This update comes from Fiji where Jane spent time with some of our program partners.
“I’ve arrived in Suva just as the Peace Boat has berthed. How wonderful for the psyche to see a large ship with the words ‘Peace Boat’ on her side.
A number of Peace Boat passengers chose to visit Generation Next at fem’LINKPACIFIC’s offices to learn more about suitcase radio and the work of young women in building awareness and action around UN Resolution 1325.
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, the dynamic Executive Director of fem’LINKPACIFIC introduces some of the young women involved and gives an overview of the work of the organization to the visitors.”
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The Personal is Political – Jane Sloane
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
The Personal is Political
IWDA ED Jane Sloane is currently visiting some of IWDA’s partners in the Pacific.
This update comes from Papua New Guinea where Jane spent time with some of our program partners.
“My vision is for a Microbank for Women”, Janet Sape says during a late night meeting we’ve scheduled in Port Moresby before she flies out to Lae the next morning.
Janet’s track record is impressive.
She created several businesses while working at a bank and then founded the City Mother’s Business Foundation to help women, both in the formal and informal sectors.
The Foundation already has in excess of 10,000 members.
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Making space for women, gender and Pacific perspectives in the PACER Plus negotiations – Claire Rowland
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Claire Rowland on making space for women, gender and Pacific perspectives in the PACER Plus negotiations
The absence of women from decision making in various arenas is a recurring theme on this website. Another ‘where are the women’ example that is concerning IWDA at the moment is the negotiation of new trade arrangements in the Pacific, known as PACER Plus
Joining IWDA’s Executive Director at the recent conference on Pacific women, held in Vanuatu was Claire Rowland, one of IWDA’s intrepid Pacific Program Managers. Here she offers her perspective…
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