Wednesday, January 4, 2012
United Nations, New York: The US Federation for Middle East Peace President Mrs. Sally Kader is pleased to request the honor of your presence at The International Day of Persons with Disabilities Conference in the Kingdom of Bahrain on January 21 – 22, 2012. For the first time in the Middle East, leaders across contents [...]
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Leadership FIJI Program 2012 Applications are now available. Closing date for application is Friday 27th January, 2012. For application forms please email michelle@leadershipfiji.com Leadership Fiji is an independent, non-partisan, non-aligned entity, which depends on support drawn from the corporate, public and community sectors which was launched in 2000. Program Objectives Leadership Fiji fosters the development [...]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Leadership FIJI is an independent, non-partisan entity which fosters the development and enhancement of the quality of Fiji leaders by providing a unique opportunity to meet with a broad cross section of business and community leaders from a range of experiences and backgrounds. Leadership FIJI is looking to fill the following position : EXECUTIVE OFFICER [...]
Monday, December 12, 2011
The Pacific region continues to hold some of the highest figures of violence against women and some of the lowest figures for female political representation, said New Zealand group Women’s Rights and Advocacy in the Pacific (WRAP)(1). With the release of the report, Promoting Gender Equity in the Pacific, WRAP is calling on Pacific Island [...]
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Pacific’s premier magazine Islands Business has named long-time women’s rights campaigner and political rights activist Shamima Ali of Fiji as its 2011 Pacific Person of the Year. “For the courage to take on Fiji and the Pacific’s mainly patriarchal society and systems, for her determination and battle to put women’s rights on the agenda of [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The lives of women around the world have improved dramatically, at a pace and scope difficult to imagine even 25 years ago. Women have made unprecedented gains in rights, education, health, and access to jobs and livelihoods. More countries than ever guarantee equal rights in property, marriage, and other domains. Gendergaps in primary schooling have [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011
Women’s rights organizations and gender equality advocates met in Busan, South Korea, ahead of the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) Nov 29 – Dec 1 to agree on common strategies to influence the development cooperation framework that will come out of HLF-4. Political Statement from the Busan Global Women’s Forum Excerpt: “We [...]
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Pacific women suffering in terrible silence “EVERYONE wept!” Penny Williams, Australia’s new Global Ambassador for Women and Girls, had eyes the size of saucers as she described the scene at a recent Australia-US discussion about violence against women in the Pacific. “They were loud tears too, and I mean really loud. We were all crying.” [...]
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Empowering Women Powers Nations Imagine if a city of almost four million people disappeared every year. A Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Yokohama. It would be hard to miss. Yet it goes largely unnoticed that almost four million girls and women “go missing” each year in developing countries when compared to their female counterparts in developed countries. [...]
Friday, November 18, 2011
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has released a report on the climate change challenges that children face in East Asia and the Pacific. The report indicates that climate change will exacerbate the living conditions of millions of children in the region, who already suffer from a lack of access to clean water and proper sanitation [...]