Rural Sustainability in the Urban Century
Rural Sustainability in the Urban Century
XV World Congress of Rural Sociology 19-22 July 2022 Cairns Australia
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The Drought Resilience workshop has commenced https://t.co/VHRCcILS5L
09:28 AM Dec 10thUnveiling of the new campus name ‘Nguma-bada’ campus #jamescookuniversity #cairnsaustralia https://t.co/xwfQNj3q3w
10:45 AM Dec 7th10:00 AM Dec 7thGreat session with #jobsqueensland #regionalqueensland #futureskills #futureworkforce @JobsQLD @jcu https://t.co/3eHZv4LQZ6
05:58 PM Dec 3rdGreat job Allan https://t.co/s0WpxL7qN8
10:02 AM Nov 26thResearch jobs available #greatbarrierreef #program #reefrestorationandadaptation #collaborativepartnership https://t.co/29kI1gKEuO
08:43 AM Nov 20thExploring the Cairns Region’s Future Workforce: people/businesses of Cairns region have your say - discussion boar… https://t.co/cIHNOL7MRQ
02:23 PM Nov 12thHappy National NAIDOC Week #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe https://t.co/VQ1xXsRwIU
09:37 AM Nov 9thInteresting insight to Chinese firms in PNG by James Chin #HASSresearchfocusPNG #oldchinese #newchinese #differentiated #migrants
03:16 PM Nov 5thDay 2 HASS Research Focus PNG continued with great presentations from I-Chang Kuo and Shaun Gessler #workrelations… https://t.co/0YXwtz4VN8
03:11 PM Nov 5thWomen’s political representation is a major component of both the Human Development Index and the Gender Development Index. The right of women to have equal participation in formal decision making processes is recognised in international conventions, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Articles 4 and 7) .
UN women identify women’s participation as one of the major development challenges. In October 2020 only 25.1 % of all national parliamentarians were women. The Pacific region, (excluding Australia, New Zealand and US and French Territories) has the lowest level of women’s representation of the world with only 8.8% of women parliamentarians (UNDP Pacific Women in Politics - See https://www.pacwip.org/women-mps/national-women-mps/). This lack of representation of women is linked to complex social, cultural, political and economic factors.
The Pacific Women’s Political Empowerment Research Group sits within the Cairns Institute at James Cook University. Our research relates to the Cairns Institute's research theme - Social & Environmental Justice – the goal of which is to assist communities to respond to social and environmental change and increase social inclusion through projects committed to social justice, health and wellbeing.
The Group aims to conduct research and engage in development practice that will support increased political representation of women in the Pacific region, particularly focusing on PNG, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands, in the Melanesian subregion.
The Pacific Women’s Political Empowerment Research Group seeks to:
Dr Lesley Clark is an Adjunct Research Fellow with The Cairns Institute having worked with James Cook University as a lecturer and Director of Equity. She has extensive knowledge of politics in Australia serving as an elected representative at local and State level for 20years. Since retiring as the Member for Barron River Dr Clark has undertaken a range of consultancy projects in the Asia Pacific region to increase the political participation of women through election observation missions, designing and delivering campaign training workshops for women candidates, providing support to political parties, designing programs for donor agencies to increase political participation of Pacific women, and providing mentoring support to women candidates.
Dr Clark is currently the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Champion for the Alumni Initiative, a project of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Network which aims to use mentoring by experienced Members of Parliament to support newly elected women parliamentarians across the Commonwealth.
Professor Betty Lovai is the Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor (ASA) of the University of Papua New Guinea. She is also the Executive Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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