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Women's Rights Action Movement (WRAM) was founded in 2011 as a registered charity in the Solomon Islands. [1] The initial aims of the organisation included: to enable more women to participate in decision-making and leadership roles; to take affirmative action to combat inequalities faced by women; to challenge the prevalence of violence against women in the country. [2]
Solomon Islands joined the United Nations in 1978. It is party to four of the nine core human rights treaties - the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (). [4]
Afu Lia Billy (born 1959) is a women's rights activist and writer in Solomon Islands.Since the late 1970s, she has worked to promote women's rights and combat violence against women, including through work with various local and international NGOs.
Solomon Islands National Council of Women is a non-governmental women's organisation based in Honiara, in the Solomon Islands. It was founded in 1983 [1] It has received funding from the Global Fund for Women [2]
Jully Makini (also known as Jully Sipolo) (born c. 1953 (age 64 in 2017) [1]) is a Solomon Islander poet, writer and women's rights activist.The author of poems such as Civilized Girl (1981) and Praying Parents (1986), in June 2017 she received the International Women of Courage Award from the US Secretary of State for her work in promoting women's rights in the Solomon Islands.
Boso worked for the Solomon Islands government in the Ministry of Women, Youth and Children, in the role policy officer for the End Violence Against Women (EVAW) program. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2009 she led the first national domestic violence survey in the Solomon Islands, which demonstrated that 64% of women aged 16 to 49 had experienced sexual ...
Women's rights in the Solomon Islands This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 16:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Merle Aqorau, MBE (born 1939) is a Solomon Islander and social worker who was instrumental in the development of the women's movement in the Solomon Islands. Engaged as a social welfare officer, she established women's clubs in various locations throughout Melanesia, founded a YWCA training centre to assist young women in continuing their education and worked as the regional secretary of the ...