Pacific climate change activists are engaged in a race against time as they seek to influence the upcoming COP21 summit. As part of our engagement with Pacific social change movements, we are publishing the following short blog, to help publicise their campaign… Pacific activists Noelene Nabulivou and Miki Wali write: If Australia and New Zealand really cares about the Pacific as a partner, they must … Continue reading Not Drowning, Fighting…
Linda Kelly, Director of Praxis Consultants and co-Director at the Institute, discusses the importance of including those excluded from mainstream development when thinking and working politically. Ongoing research and practice experience suggests that allowing more control and direction by those excluded from mainstream development is often the best way to ensure both innovative and effective development strategies. For example, development work has embraced the idea that … Continue reading Inclusion as innovation
Guest post by Tamani Rarama Youth Ambassador for the Rainbow Pride Foundation, Suva, Fiji. ‘Go back to your country with your immorality, Tonga do not want you evil people’. That was the banner message faced by attendees at the first ever Pacific Human Rights Conference on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (held on May 11-14 in Nukualofa, Kingdom of Tonga), thanks to church-based protesters who picketed … Continue reading First Pacific Human Rights Conference on Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
By Chris Roche, Tait Brimacombe and Gillian Fletcher Originally posted on http://www.dlprog.org This week’s meeting of the Thinking and Working Politically Community of Practice will focus on gender at an opportune time. It follows a spate of interesting papers, blog posts and talks about the relationship between ‘thinking and working politically’ and gender issues. These have set us thinking that – rather than keeping the tools of power analysis … Continue reading Resources and reflections on gender and thinking and working politically
By Tait Brimacombe In recent years the Government of Kiribati, with support from the international donor community, has made impressive gains in the research and policy space towards the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence. However, the challenge remains of how to implement such policies and legislation within a sector that is notoriously under resourced. The Kiribati Family Health and Support Study (KFHSS), published in … Continue reading SGBV in Kiribati: data – policy – practice
By Tait Brimacombe A recent trip to Tonga to conduct research on civil society and gendered power structures coincided with a period of intense public debate around the country’s potential ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). These CEDAW debates serve as a useful illustration of some of the broader issues at play within Tonga’s civil society … Continue reading Tonga: Civil Society and CEDAW
By Tait Brimacombe 19th March 2015 Art and creative expression have become an activist tool and alternative form of advocacy for young women in Fiji. Through photography, theatre, dance and song, young women are finding new avenues for public expression. These innovative avenues for making their voices heard have great power in a context where women’s mobility and visibility is often constrained by socio-cultural norms. … Continue reading Creative expression and women’s empowerment in the Pacific
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