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FWRM Submission On Governance Laws 2025

Friday, 7 February 2025, 7:23 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

07/02/2025 Introduction The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) is a feminist organization committed to removing all forms of discrimination against women and girls through advocacy, research and legislative reform. FWRM acknowledges the importance ... More >>

FWRM Condemns Discriminatory Comments By Newly Appointed Rugby Director

Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 6:58 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

FWRM calls on the FRU to take a firm stance against such exclusionary rhetoric by enforcing policies that protect women, fostering an environment of respect, and ensuring that leadership positions are held by individuals who champion inclusivity. More >>

Comprehensive Sexuality Education In Schools Urgent, Amid HIV Outbreak

Thursday, 23 January 2025, 6:05 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

With over one thousand new cases of HIV recorded just between the months of January to September last year, FWRM reiterates that the increase is partly due to insufficient and fragmented sexual and reproductive health and rights education within Fiji's ... More >>

State Of Human Rights In Fiji Up For Review Tonight

Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 6:10 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

Fiji was last reviewed by the UPR Working Group in November 2019. The fourth review of Fiji under the UPR mechanism is taking place during the 48th session of the UPR Working Group this month. More >>

Disappointing Response From The Fiji Police Force

Thursday, 16 January 2025, 3:26 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

FWRM research shows that it takes women a total of 868 days (about 2.5 years) before trying to get help, and when they do, their experiences include that, only 50% of the women surveyed feel safe in the station. More >>

Fiji’s Educational Curriculum Needs Comprehensive Sexuality Education Now!

Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 5:24 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

Latest reports of teenage pregnancies published in a country assessment of adolescent pregnancies and motherhood in Fiji has reported that approximately 1,000 babies were born each year to adolescent mothers during 2016-2019, with the youngest mother recorded ... More >>

FWRM’s Young Women Leadership Programme Heads To The Northern Division

Monday, 22 July 2024, 10:22 am | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

Seventeen young women representatives from the northern division have now joined the tenth cohort of FWRM’s flagship young women’s programme, the Emerging Leaders Forum. More >>

Fiji Women's Rights Movement: Protect LGBTQI+ Rights - Stop The Violence, Stop The Hate Crimes!

Friday, 17 May 2024, 6:51 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

FWRM, in solidarity with the LGBTQI+ community and our partners that work on the issues faced by this minority group, calls for the protection of LGBTQI+ rights and the safety of LGBTQI+ people. More >>

Young Women Form The Young Feminist Network

Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 2:39 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

The network, established with assistance from FWRM, will be used as a platform by these young women to actively respond to national issues such as the lack of women in leadership positions, gender discrimination, violence against young women and ... More >>

Fiji Women's Rights Movement: Another Life Lost – When Will The Violence Stop?

Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 5:40 am | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

FWRM strongly condemns the horrific and brutal killing of Fijian women (FEMICIDE) in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Despite the continued advocacy on gender-based violence, we record another death, another statistic of domestic violence in our ... More >>

Fiji Women's Rights Movement: Police Response Disappointing

Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 5:38 am | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

The Fiji Police have a duty and an important role in managing immediate harm and risk to cases of domestic violence. This urgent plea needs to be taken seriously by our law enforcement especially when we are facing an entrenched epidemic of domestic ... More >>

Unpaid Care Work Spotlight Of The If Women Stop, The World Stops Concert By FWRM

Friday, 8 March 2024, 8:26 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

Unpaid care work perpetuates and exacerbates gender inequalities and discrimination. This was the sentiment shared during the fifth If Women Stop, the World Stops concert organised by the Fiji Women's Rights Movement in Suva today. The free concert, a ... More >>

Come Join Our If Women Stop, the World Stops Concert Tomorrow on International Women's Day!

Friday, 8 March 2024, 5:23 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

The Fiji Women's Rights Movement's If Women Stop, the World Stops Concert is taking place on International Women’s Day – March 8th, 2024 at the Sukuna Park in Suva. The Concert is in solidarity with the Women’s Global Strike, which calls women More >>

FWRM Welcomes New Board And Trustee Appointments

Monday, 26 February 2024, 5:43 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

FWRM is pleased to announce the appointment of our new Governance Board Chair Ms. Daiana Buresova who has begun her term this past week, replacing outgoing Chair Ms. Makereta Waqavonovono. Ms. Buresova is a feminist and a lawyer who has a wealth of ... More >>

FWRM Holds Regional Workshop To Build Capacity Of Partner Organisations Across The Region

Tuesday, 13 February 2024, 6:32 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement convened a two-day regional workshop that concluded today in Suva on “How to Be Gender Responsive and Transformative”. A total of 15 participants from a diverse range of organisations in eight countries, attended ... More >>

Low Number Of Women In Local Government Appointments Disappointing

Wednesday, 3 January 2024, 6:31 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

FWRM is extremely disappointed with the list of councillors and special administrators published recently where only 2 out of 27 are women. After continuous calls and demands for equal representation of women and men in leadership spaces, it is disheartening ... More >>

FWRM’s Regional Feminist Learning Convening comes to an end

Saturday, 10 June 2023, 2:28 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

Building stronger movements critical to tackling challenges for women in Pacific region What an enriching week this has been for the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement as we concluded the Regional Feminist Learning Convening yesterday afternoon at the ... More >>

Women Deliver 2023 Pacific Regional Convening: Amplifying Pacific Voices For Gender Equality

Thursday, 1 June 2023, 5:11 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

The urgency of highlighting the voices of Pacific women in all their diversity was the agenda of the two-day Women Deliver 2023 Pacific Regional Convening that was organised at the Pearl Resort, Fiji. This momentous event and the inaugural one for ... More >>

Unity In Diversity And Amongst Pacific Feminists Urgent To Continue Advocacy On Women’s Rights In The Pacific

Tuesday, 16 May 2023, 4:06 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

The strength of feminist solidarity and unity of strong, diverse Pacific women was the highlight of the 3rd Pacific Feminist Forum as participants concluded the three day extensive programme last week at the Pearl Resort, Pacific Harbour. Participants ... More >>

Unity In Diversity And Amongst Pacific Feminists Urgent To Continue Advocacy On Women’s Rights In The Pacific

Tuesday, 16 May 2023, 4:06 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

The strength of feminist solidarity and unity of strong, diverse Pacific women was the highlight of the 3rd Pacific Feminist Forum as participants concluded the three day extensive programme last week at the Pearl Resort, Pacific Harbour. Participants ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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