This month one of our volunteers, Iona Roy, had a chat with IWDA Program Manager, Bonney Corbin, about her experiences working in the field. Bonney works on the Solomon Islands
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Solomon Islands need women MPs
Solomon Islands need women in Parliament and hopefully we’ll see some of them up there in the upcoming elections this year.
These were the words of Sarah
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A newly formed leadership group for young Solomon Island women between the ages of 15-29 was formed early 2009.
The group is named Girls 4 Change and undertakes a variety of
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As officials of Pacific Forum member countries prepare to gather for the annual Forum Regional Security Committee meeting in Suva this week, a regional woman’s community media network
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Partner: Live & Learn Environmental Education (LLEE) SI
Country: Solomon Islands
Historically, forest management in the Solomon Islands has been widely contested and controversial. For decades sustainable forest management has been absent
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IWDA partner in the Solomon Islands, One Television, ran the first 30-minute episode of the STOP Domestic Violence Program early in February 2009. IWDA has supported this project through Australian Ethical Investments, in response to a request from Dorothy Wickham, the head of One Television.

She has engaged all of the women’s groups in Honiara as a reference group and launched not the 3 minute segments we were originally expecting, but a full-scale program!

Partner: fem’LINKPACIFIC and other women’s NGOs in the region
Country:Fiji with outreach into Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Tonga
Building on the set of 25 outcomes outlined by participants at the 2006 Pacific
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Stop Violence TV Campaign
Partner: One News Ltd.
Country: Solomon Islands
This project aims to pioneer creative stop violence television segments to reach Solomon Islanders, especially young men and women living
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