Archive for the ‘Safety and Security’ Category
IWDA congratulates fem’LINKPACIFIC on 6 years of their Suitcase Radio!
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
IWDA offers a heart-felt congratulations to all our colleagues in fem’LINKPACIFIC on the sixth year of their innovative suitcase radio program. Congratulations!
IWDA has proudly supported fem’LINKPACIFIC’s Generation Next Program for 3 years, and during this time has seen the organisation and the program go from strength to strength. The last 3 years in particular have seen the organisation opening a fantastic Community Media Centre, providing training to over 40 young women to become radio producers and broadcasters, bringing the voices of women in rural and urban areas to policy makers through policy papers, radio programs and newsletters, and the production of excellent radio content – including radio dramas, interviews, and jingles, like the “Peace and Human Security, this is what it means to me” jingle.
Tags: femLink, Fiji
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fem’LINKPACIFIC releases the first Women, Peace and Human Security Report for 2010
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
fem’LINKPACIFIC has just released the first Women, Peace and Human Security Report for 2010, created to ensure women’s effective participation in defining peace and human security priorities in Fiji.
The report outlines the priorities of women living in Fiji between January and April 2010, identified by fem’LINKPACIFIC, in their work undertaking 105 Household and Income Expenditure Survey reports (HIES); rural consultations with 71 which are an opportunity for a core group of women to frame their every day realities into a Human Security framework; and 36 interviews that were carried out by the Generation Next girls through vox pops and market Reports.
The report identifies women’s top priorities during this time – economic security, environmental security, and health security – all of which interconnected and dependent on personal safety and security.
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Three steps forward, two steps back – but still walking onwards
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Three steps forward, two steps back – but still walking onwards
IWDA supports the face of courage: Kup Women for Peace
Pacific Programs Manager (PNG), Eleanor Jackson writes about the Kup Women for Peace and their work.
“The Papua New Guinea of today is a country of great change and promise. Yet, as PNG’s Big Men make deals on their Blackberrys, and yesterday’s copra plantation workers train to be tomorrow’s heavy machine operators, the vast majority of Papua New Guinean women still find themselves not only responsible for primary food production, the provision of water and fuel, and the delivery of child and familial care, but also subject to widespread physical, sexual and emotional violence.
Against this backdrop, Mary Kini, Agnes Sil and Angela Apa of Kup Women for Peace (KWP) stand as passionate activists and development workers in PNG committed to bringing safety and security to their communities…”
Tags: Kup Women for Peace, Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Safety and Security
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IWDA partner agency fem’LINKPACIFIC’s latest 2010 editions of fem’TALK are now available online
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
IWDA partner agency fem’LINKPACIFIC’s latest editions of fem’TALK are now available online.
In the latest E-MegaZine bulletin, the spotlight is on Beijing “Plus” Fifteen in “Looking at Our World Through Women’s Eyes”. You can also catch up on the preparations for the 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York this month and get the latest updates on GEAR.
Tags: femLink, Fiji
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fem’LINKPACIFIC newsletter fem’TALK 1325 edition 3/2009 now available online
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
IWDA partner agency fem’LINKPACIFIC’s final fem’TALK newsletter for 2009 is now available online.
This newsletter features stories on the YWCA efforts to create peaceful communities, reports from correspondents in PNG and Solomon Islands on conflict and government, NGO, and community action to promote peace and security and information on fem’LINKPACIFIC’s 9th birthday and recent regional partner’s meeting.
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Women’s Action for Change releases November 2009 Peacebuilding Newsletter – WACky Peace
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Women’s Action for Change releases November 2009 Peacebuilding Newsletter – WACky Peace
IWDA partner agency Women’s Action for Change (WAC) has released another creative, fun and interesting edition of WACky Peace featuring articles on advancing Sexual rights as part of Women’s Equality and EVAW Work in the Pacific, gender and sexuality baiting.
In this 16 Days Campaign Edition Newsletter you can find information about their pantomime The Princess Who was Kidnapped, and stories from women from 15 informal settlements in Fiji that are growing a movement for gender equality.
Tags: Fiji, Resources/Materials/Publications, WAC
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Celebrating the Ninth Anniversary of Resolution 1325
Friday, November 6th, 2009
October 31 2009 was the ninth anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
The resolution outlines the importance of increasing women’s participation in decision-making at
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Coordinator of fem’LINKPACIFIC appointed as new Gender Liaison Person of the GPPAC
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Coordinator of IWDA partner agency fem’LINKPACIFIC, has been appointed to the position of Gender Liaison Person of the Global Partnership of the Prevention of Armed Conflict’s (GPPAC)
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