Pacific Women

The researchers say colonial power structures continue to shape global health systems, undermining Pacific leadership.

But at least discussions are beginning to take place at high levels, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Pacific regional office head.

A new report by the Asian Development Bank has found that more Pacific women are taking up leadership roles in business, but they continue to face discrimination. Audio

At least 300 Pacific women were killed in 2021, many at the hands of intimate partners or male relatives, Netani Rika writes.

Marshall Islands President, Dr Hilda Heine, said the climate crisis faced in the region and the world would make gender equality more difficult to attain.

Pacific leaders must be innovative and bold to create gender equality and respond to gaps which exist in their efforts to bridge differences.

Health, education, climate change and economic stability are the most pressing issues facing women and children in the Marshall Islands, Marshall Islands politician Daisy Alik-Momotaro says.

Women continue to fight for justice, 70 years after the first nuclear tests by the US caused devastation on the people and environment of the Marshall Islands, Netani Rika writes.

Pacific women should play a prominent role in politics, but how do they fare at parliament?

Pacific women in New Zealand are rising to the top and smashing glass ceilings on their way up, a new report on Pacific women's wellbeing in Aotearoa says.