IWDA would like to congratulate partner organisation the Palaung Women’s Organisation (PWO) on their groundbreaking report “Poisoned Hills: Surging Opium Cultivation under Government Control in Burma” which was released yesterday.
PWO’s findings highlight the structural issues underlying the drug problem in Burma and follow a 2006 report ‘Poisoned Flowers’ which examined the devastating impacts of spiralling drug addiction on women in Palaung areas of Burma.
The research project ‘Making the invisible visible’ explores the strategies, steps and activities that are working to promote gender equity in, and through, water and sanitation program in the Pacific. The Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) and the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) are currently undertaking research funded by AusAID to investigate gender outcomes in water and sanitation initiatives in the Pacific with partner NGOs.
On the eve of the climate change talks in Copenhagen, the small community of the Carteret Islands[i] held a candlelight vigil with the theme Give us a Chance to Survive - Sign Now! In doing so, they joined their brothers and sisters from across the world in a global movement committed to furthering a global solution to the climate crisis.
Naomi Yupae, Executive Director of IWDA partner organisation Eastern Highlands Family Voice, spoke on Radio Australia about enlisting men to help them prevent violence against women in Papua New Guinea.
In the wake of cyclone Mick last night, Fiji’s women’s agencies are already on the ground to see what must be done.
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