Upholding women’s dignity after a disaster
Most Australian women have access to basic hygiene at all times, many of us always have tampons in our handbags just in case and in recent...
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Climate Justice
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Tropical Cyclone Harold Response: Women’s Leadership at the Centre of a Localised Response
As the women from Malo walked into the Sanma Provincial Secretary General’s office with a sense of trepidation, humanitarian history was...
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ActionAid and Vanuatu Ministry of Health train local women to lead COVID-19 response
Ni-Vanuatu women are at the forefront of efforts to prevent COVID-19 in Vanuatu as part of the Australian Government’s Disaster READY...
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COVID-19
Women across Bhopal, India are driving ration distribution
As India raced to stop the spread of coronavirus, enforcing widespread lockdowns, Sarika Sinha swiftly mobilised a volunteer force to...
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COVID-19
COVID-19 cases confirmed in Cox’s Bazar: Rohingya women face dual crisis
Amidst the crowded homes of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, violence is on the rise, says Sharmin Akter. “There is alway...
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Women Wetem Weta Setting the Tone for Emergency Communications in Vanuatu
Across the small island nation of Vanuatu, women on the frontlines of COVID-19 are proving to be powerful voices for their community;...
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How Some Pacific Women are Responding to Climate Change and Natural Disasters
Women in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu are dealing with six crises currently – COVID 19, drought, scarcity of potable water,...
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