Pacific countries focus on increasing women in parliaments
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Countries in the Pacific are looking at how to get more women into legislative positions, a process that the UN is supporting.
Just five per cent of parliamentarians in the region are women.
They face a number of barriers in getting into politics.
Daniel Dickinson has been speaking to Roy Trivedy, the United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative in Papua New Guinea which recently hosted a Regional Conference on strengthening women’s participation in parliaments.
Duration: 3’24”