Closer partnerships, fresh initiatives for Pacific women

Linda Petersen is the new head of SPC’s Pacific Women’s Bureau.

Linda Petersen, from the Fiji Islands, is no stranger to development and gender equality issues in this part of the world. She brings more than a decade of UN work to her new role, and leaves the job of Millennium Development Goals Coordinator and Assistant Resident Representative for the UNDP’s Fiji multi-country office in Suva to take up her Noumea-based position. To read more...

Gender sensitivity training for trainers in Tuvalu

A training on gender sensitivity was conducted in Funafuti, Tuvalu, 2-6 May 2005. Gender sensitivity training is considered a basic process, targeting policy makers, decision-makers in the various sectors, civil societies and the community at large. It is designed to bring about an attitudinal change within the lives of the participants, and personal reflections are a major part of the training. Read more...

CEDAW reporting workshops in New Caledonia

PWB completed during the last week of July 2005 two workshops on CEDAW reporting in New Caledonia.

“It was a first for New-Caledonia", says PWB Women’s Development Officer Rolande Trolue. "As such, these workshops helped create new partnerships between women and prioritise issues and goals relating to CEDAW.” To read more...

For more info contact RolandeT@spc.int

Pacific Delegations meet in New York

Read the review and appraisal in the Commission on the Status of Women 28th February -11th March 2005 and Commonwealth Ministerial  pre-CSW on February 27th