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Tag - Women’s empowerment

Meraia Taufa Vakatale (centre) at an anti-nuclear protest march in 1995 (photo supplied by Vakatale family)

Meraia Taufa Vakatale: anti-nuclear activist and feminist trailblazer

by Asenaca Uluiviti and Sadhana Sen
22 August 2023
A woman voter in PNG (Lesley Clark)

Women in the 2022 PNG elections

by Orovu Sepoe, Lesley Clark and Teddy Winn
22 August 2022
Skaila Samuel, a representative of the Ward Development Committee and coffee farmer, carries a bag of coffee in Simbari, Eastern Highlands, PNG

From participation to power: women’s economic empowerment in the Pacific

by Isabelle Gurney
7 February 2022
Sara and her children (Ruth Jackson)

A letter to Sara, who wanted to further her education

by Ruth Jackson
13 August 2020

2019 Mitchell Humanitarian Award presented to Elizabeth Reid

by Ashlee Betteridge
20 February 2019
(Credit: Umair Abbasi/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Fortnightly links: Ghandi’s ongoing relevance, Pakistan’s ten billion tree tsunami, humanitarian journalism, and more

by Sachini Muller and Terence Wood
26 October 2018
Sista is an online magazine for the women of Vanuatu

Navigating feminism and amplifying women’s voices in Vanuatu: in conversation with Yasmine Bjornum

by Tess Newton Cain and Yasmine Bjornum
6 September 2018
Somwati Bai leads a gram sabha meeting in Madhya Pradesh, India (UNDP/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Fortnightly links: destination Europe, social media lynch mobs, a country of contradictions, and more

by Sachini Muller and Terence Wood
20 July 2018
Netsanet preparing food as per lessons learned from health extension workers (Sekota Wereda, Hamusit Kebele/UNICEF/Ethiopia/Nahom Tesfaye/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Fortnightly links: Scott Guggenheim, the One Campaign, Missing Maps, and more

by Sachini Muller, Terence Wood and Tara Davda
17 November 2017
Rural Timor Leste (Credit: Dr Kathryn Anne Cornwall)

Women’s empowerment and microfinance:  key challenges, lessons and a way forward

by Saba Mebrahtu Habte and Sara Niner
8 November 2017
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