The first all-female deck crew set off on their two-week fishing trip on a longline tuna vessel. “Women working on fishing vessels are exceedingly rare.”
Tag: Women
Pacific Elders’ Voice statement on the occasion of the UN Commission on the Status of Women Sixty-sixth session
Pacific Elders’ Voice call for greater effort towards making a difference for Pacific women and girls impacted by the climate crisis and accelerating women’s economic empowerment
Women, Girls must be centre of global climate fight – Pacific to CSW66
Pacific calls for more recognition of the critical role of women and girls in climate resilience. “In Pacific communities, women have a history of adapting to climate change impacts.”
Climate Change & COVID – 19: Pacific women showing strong governance and resilience through these crises
Pacific women that are highly susceptible to climate change, disaster risks and natural hazards have excellent adaptive capacity, writes Belyndar Rikimani
Women fish too: invisible women in tuna industries
The role of women in the Tuna industry need essential recognition to break the bias that the tuna fishing industry is a man’s world, writes Kate Barclay
Gender Equality and Climate Justice: Pacific Civil society reinforces the nexus between the two during International Women’s Day
Pacific Civil society stressed the need to strengthen national and regional responses to gender and climate injustice “as women are the ones who are at the forefront of the climate crisis.”
Report: Women hold the key to unlocking the potential of sustainable energy in the Pacific
A report shows improving women’s access to sustainable energy is essential to equitable and sustainable development across the Pacific
Papua New Guinea women harness indigenous knowledge and science to protect coral reefs
In some parts of the country, women are not allowed to dive, but Sea Women of Melanesia is out to change that by educating women to conserve their local coral reefs