Special Measures for Women - Pacific Sub-regional Workshop | Port Moresby
CDI special adviser on gender issues Dr Sun-Hee Lee participated in the recent sub-regional workshop on special measures for women, organised by the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat on 24-26 September in Port Moresby. This workshop built on the outcomes of the 2006 Rarotonga meeting of women parliamentarians from the Forum Islands countries together with development partners, academics and civil society organisations.
The importance of special measures towards increasing the number of women in parliament was one of the key recommendations of the 2006 workshop, which agreed on the need for a series of sub-regional workshops to raise awareness on special measures vis-à-vis reserved seats and quotas and relevant electoral reforms aimed at improving the representation of women in parliament. The Secretariat commissioned study on barriers to advancing women’s representation in parliaments in the Pacific region formed the basis of this Port Moresby workshop.
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