30 articles tagged "fwrm"
The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement has rubbished a research damning national response to gender-based violence as its methods negligently leave out the voices of survivors, ignore strong feminist research already done i
The economic cost of violence against women and girls in Fiji is estimated at over $300 million per year, roughly 7% of our annual GDP. The Fiji Women's Rights Movement highlighted this following the tragic inciden
The decline in political representation of women in the three national elections under the current electoral system is an embarrassment and cultural, social, economic and political barriers that continue to block women'
The new research aims to highlight issues such as menopause, which have not been significantly discussed in open spaces. Fiji Women’s Rights Movement Executive Director, Nalini Singh highlighted as she says the r
The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement urges the government to place greater emphasis on outreach regarding menopause, and the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection and Ministry of Health
The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement is calling on the government to give more time for consultations regarding amendments to the 2013 Constitution as a rushed process risks excluding key voices, reinforcing past mistakes
The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement has raised concerns about transparency, accountability, and gender protections in its submission during public consultations on the Information Amendment Bill, Accountability and Trans
The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and Fiji Women’s Rights Movement have condemned the homophobic comments by the new FRU Director Laijipa Naulivou which blatantly reject (Pacific Islanders of diverse sexual orientation
The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and Fiji Women’s Rights Movement are calling on the coalition government and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka to withdraw the nomination of Pita Wise to be Fiji's Ambassador to Japan.
Alarming statistics have been revealed where for the first time ever, the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey carried out by the Fiji Bureau of Statistics in 2022 reveals that about 9 percent of women aged 20-29 years old
It takes a woman an average of 868 days or about 2 and a half years to access justice from the first time they experience violence and one of the reasons for this delay is lack of awareness on formal justice sector agen
The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement is again appalled at the statistics of rape and sexual violence released by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for the month of June, and asks are we as a nation not ash
The Fiji Women's Rights Movement is today making an urgent call on the Minister for Education, Aseri Radrodro and the teacher unions to respect the decision of the Public Service Commission in appointing Doctor Selina K
14 feminists, activists, human rights defenders, community trainers, legal practitioners and counsellors from six Pacific Small Islands Developing States underwent a one-week training in promoting gender equality and hu
The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement and Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre have called for the repealing of the current Electoral (Registration of Voters) Act. The women’s NGOs led by FWRM Executive Director, Nalini Si
Lack of education is no longer a barrier to greater female participation in the labour force and enjoyment of incomes and personal wealth however, unfortunately, large numbers of female graduates were not in the paid la
Some men raised their concerns during a consultation with the Minister for Health that women were using contraceptives without the consent of their husbands or partners, and feel that any family planning initiated by wom
A participant of Fiji Women’s Rights Movement’s Grow.Inspire.Relate.Lead.Succeed Programme says she always wanted to be involved in a lot of events but could not because she has hearing impairment. The girl say
The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement says the average age of all victims/survivors of rape cases finalised in Fiji’s High Courts in 2021 is 15 years old - the youngest at 3 years of age. The average age of the perp
Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator Shamima Ali says former Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Mereseini Vuniwaqa was criticized and made the front page of one of the news outlets for standing up
