Tongan women break cultural norms to take decision-making role
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Women on a remote Pacific island are breaking cultural barriers by taking on roles which will decide the future of their communities.
A programme supported by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on Hunga island, in the Tonga archipelago, gives women and men equal decision-making powers.
Together they have agreed on a series of large-scale infrastructure projects which have changed life for the better, as Joanne Levitan reports from Hunga.
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