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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 >>
FWRM GIRLS Programme Shifts To The West
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 9:52 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement
For the first time, the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) is implementing its flagship leadership development programme with adolescent girls between the ages of 13-17 in the Western Division. FWRM’s Grow. Inspire. Relate. Lead. Succeed -GIRLS ... More >>
FWRM offers Women’s Mentoring Programme again in 2023
Friday, 10 March 2023, 7:38 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement
Due to the overwhelming success of the inaugural Paying it Forward Mentoring (PiF-M) programme for mid-career women launched in 2021 on International Women's Day, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement is proud to announce today the commencement of the second ... More >>
Concert Used as Platform for Women’s Voices on International Women’s Day
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 7:51 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement
8/03/2023 Hundreds of women’s human rights defenders and advocates, representatives of civil society and non-governmental organisations gathered today at the Fiji Museum verandah at FWRM’s If Women Stop, the World Stops concert to mark International ... More >>
FWRM launches groundbreaking report - Significant gender gaps found on women’s economic participation
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 9:10 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement
1/03/2023 The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) launched a groundbreaking research report “Beyond 33%: The Economic Empowerment of Fiji Women and Girls”, in Suva today. The research report launched today, where FWRM commissioned Professor Wadan ... More >>
Fiji Free And Fair Elections
Monday, 21 November 2022, 8:09 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement
As the nation prepares to vote in the upcoming general elections, the NGO Coalition on Human Rights (NGOCHR) implores all stakeholders as well as the people of Fiji engage in a peaceful transition of power upon the election of the next government. ... More >>
