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What’s your dream to make life better? Jobecca Watinga sings her dream to be free to walk safely on the streets, with her head held high, without fear or harassment. This is the new normal that Jobecca would like to see for all girls and women in Papua New Guinea.
This performance was recorded during the Pacific Women Papua New Guinea Annual Learning Workshop 2018.

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Shamima Ali, Coordinator of the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (FWCC), provides an overview of the issue of violence against women it the Pacific, the drivers of violence and the importance of engaging men.

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Vanuatu Women's Centre (VWC) Coordinator, Merilyn Tahi, elaborates on the services her organisation provides Ni-Van women and the research VWC has conducted on violence against women in Vanuatu.

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How can we encourage community members to take an active role in eliminating violence against women? Do the police play an important role in this? Hear what EribwebweTakirua, Police Inspector from the Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Unit, Kiribati has to say about this.

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Monica Paulus from the Women's Human Rights Defenders Network (WHRDN) Papua New Guinea works in one of the most isolated and challenging parts of the country. WHRDNprovides support to rural women escaping sorcery allegations and extreme instances of violence against women. Listen to Monica's vision for Pacific Women in the next 10 years.

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Adolescent girls in the Pacific face challenges because they are girls; and they can also be discriminated against for other reasons, such as having a disability or getting pregnant. In this short video, adolescent girls from the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu talk about the issues that are important to them – such as education and climate change, the challenges they face – such as violence in their homes and cyber bullying, and the strategies they believe will work to empower adolescent girls in the region.