Fiji - Safer Marketplaces for Women Vendors

Ba Municipality, Fiji - In the largest agriculture-based countries of the Pacific region -Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, Vanuatu and Fiji -- women market vendors have long been keeping their families and communities afloat. Here, selling fresh food is often the only way to earn cash incomes, and the vendors, 80-90 per cent of whom are women, power an industry with high financial turnovers.Yet such women battle invisibility and personal risk in their workplaces. Market vendors work an…

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Side by Side -- Women, Peace and Security

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Jointly developed by the Australian Government's Australian Civil-Military Centre and UN Women, "Side by Side -- Women, Peace and Security" explores how the international community has and can meet its commitments on women, peace and security. The 30-minute documentary features an introduction by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as well as interviews with United Nations personnel, peacekeepers, mediators, humanitarian actors, policy makers and survivors of conflict. Read more…

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