Women and gender in the Pacific: Where to from here?

You are warmly invited to join Amnesty International and the Pacific Media Centre for the launch of a new human rights report on violence against women in the Pacific followed by a panel discussion exploring the next steps to address sexual and gender-based violence in the Pacific. Leading Pacific women’s rights experts will contribute to this constructive regional dialogue to parallel this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting in Auckland.

A Women’s Rights and Advocacy in the Pacific (WRAP) event. in partnership with Amnesty International and the Pacific Media Centre at AUT University.

Where:             AUT Conference Centre
                          AUT University City Campus
                          55 Wellesley Street
                          Auckland

When:              10:00 am - 12:30 pm
                          Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Map:              www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/contact

Session 1: 10:00 am – 11:00 am: Where is the dignity in that?
Press conference with Amnesty International. Amnesty International's hief executive officer Patrick Holmes is to launch a new report “Where is the Dignity in That?”.  The report profiles the impact informal settlements have on exacerbating sexual and gender-based violence in the Solomon Islands and includes guest speaker Joycelyn Lai from the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in the Solomon Islands.

Session 2: 11:15 am – 12:30 pm: Sexual and gender-based violence in the Pacific: Where to from here?
WRAP panel discussion will feature speakers from non-government agencvies working in the region, including the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre and the Solomon Islands YWCA.
Speakers: Joycelyn Lai (Young Women’s Christian Association, Solomon Islands)
Edwina Kotoisuv (Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre)
Ema Tagicakibau (Campaigner/Researcher, Pacific Small Arms Action Group

Asia-Pacific Journalism students at AUT will be covering this event for the Pacific Media Centre Online and Pacific Scoop.