Vanuatu

Ginny Stein/ OHRLLS

ISLAND VOICES: The changing face of Vanuatu’s Police Force

6 March 2021
The Lid is On

Today, women are still in the minority across Vanuatu’s Police Department, but times are changing.

In the final episode of Island Voices, Sergeant Bianca Simeon and her colleagues describe the challenges they face.

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16'11"
UNICEF/Jason Chute

INTERVIEW: The women activists aiming to make history in Vanuatuan politics

3 March 2021
Women

The Republic of Vanuatu is one of the few countries in the world without a single woman representative in parliament, but two determined activists are committed to ending that situation, and ensuring that women’s voices are heard by the island nation’s most senior decision-makers.

Ginny Stein/ OHRLLS

ISLAND VOICES: ‘men and women together make good leadership’

3 March 2021
The Lid is On

Vanuatu’s national parliament doesn’t have a single woman member, but two activists are committed to changing gender politics.

In the second episode of Island Voices, Georgilla Worwor, and Anthea Arukole, a former political advisor to the Vanuatu Government, discuss their political ambitions.

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18'23"
Ginny Stein/ OHRLLS

ISLAND VOICES: Vanuatu’s new wave of female surfers

27 February 2021
The Lid is On

In the Vanuatu, young women are taking their long boards to the water, refusing to accept the idea that surfing is only for men.

”Solwota Sista” is the first episode of Island Voices, a three-part podcast series which looks at the ways that women in Vanuatu are attempting to break down barriers.

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18'48"
UNICEF/Jason Chute

Vanuatu graduates from list of least developed countries

4 December 2020
Economic Development

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has graduated from the official list of Least Developed Countries (LDC), becoming the sixth country to achieve the milestone since the development categorization was created in 1971. 

WFP/Edward Johnson

News in Brief 14 April 2020

14 April 2020
News in Brief
  • COVID-19: major relief airlift reaches ‘most vulnerable’ African nations
  • New Ebola virus infections dash hopes of an end to DR Congo epidemic
  • Lifesaving aid funding released to help cyclone survivors in Vanuatu
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3'18"
UN Photo/Mark Garten

UN chief calls for ‘enlightened self-interest’ from world leaders to save ‘the whole planet’ from climate change 

18 May 2019
Climate and Environment

Concluding a week-long visit to the South Pacific, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on the world’s decision-makers to make “enlightened” choices on climate action because “the whole planet” is at stake. 

UNICEF/Pacific

One small flight for a drone, one ‘big leap’ for global health

18 December 2018
Health

On a small island in the remote South Pacific, a one-month-old baby has become the world’s first child to be given a vaccine delivered by a drone, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced.

Vanuatu Helicopters/2017/Andy Martin

Funding and support needed to protect Pacific cultural heritage: UNESCO expert

6 February 2018
Interviews

A village and cemetery in Vanuatu connected to a chief who ruled four centuries ago are an example of Pacific Island heritage that must be protected, according to an official with the UN cultural agency, UNESCO, in the region.

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Silke von Brockhausen (right) assessing border security between Sierra Leone and Liberia with local security forces and UNIPSIL staff in March 2014.
UNDP

Women have all the skills to be leaders in humanitarian response

20 August 2015
General News

Although women possess the skills and perseverance to be leaders in humanitarian work, they are still underrepresented in the field, according to an official with the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

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