Representatives from the national DCC government, UN agencies and civil society organizations gathered in Honiara last week on 14 March 2015 to celebrate the official launch of the first phase of the UN-Solomon Islands Government Joint Programme on Eliminating Violence against Women and Girls (Joint Programme).
Quoting from an article in the Solomon Star newspaper it said:
“The programme looks to leverage the combined strengths of United Nations agencies and the Government to create noticeable change for the country’s women and girls, and by extension the wider community, with an overall goal of eliminating violence against women and girls once and for all.
War Plan Conceived In Tackling Violence Against Women And Girls
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- While remembering the dead in all wars this weekend, I was honouring the peace they gave us. Lest we forget.
- 11 million funding as humanitarian aid promised me for the Solomon Islands but
- Genuine efforts to voluntarily help the Solomon Islands being frustrated by scammers and an abuse of a free press
- Solomon Islands Constitution provides for a free press
- Is the erosion. of a free press becoming the reality in the SI predicted more than a year ago?
- A free press in the Solomon Islands today
- Transforming health services should have been a national priority in the Solomon Islands
- An assessed need for mercy medical ships to service the Solomon Islands
- It is often said there are two sides to every story
- Preparing for a Digital Future in relation to education, skills and employment in the Solomon Islands.
- Ill-considered military intervention by the RSIPF after mid1999 using guns during the so called 'Ethnic Tension
- NRH reported to without essential medical consumable supplies
- A plea for sick children at the NRH reportedly suffering from heart conditions to be medically evacuated to Fiji for specialist treatment.
- Policing a Clash of Cultures." a book telling the true story of events in the SI from late "98 to mid. '99
- The TRC report and my response to it
