We Rise Coalition

We Rise Coalition Pacific women rise in solidarity for annual UN meeting on gender equality

The group’s action is also ensuring accountability to women’s human rights.

The partners in the We Rise Coalition are using their collective power to send a message about women’s human rights issues in Fiji and the Pacific at the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

This will be convened at the UN headquarters in New York from March 13 – 24.

In 1994, Pacific Governments adopted the Pacific Platform for Action (PPA) which guided the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action at the UN 4th World Conference of Women in 1995.