BY LORETTA B MANELE
The 54th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leader’s communique lays emphasis on “gender equality”.
Under the headline “Gender Equality”, it states that leaders recommitted to leading national and regional advocacy efforts for gender equality as aligned to political commitments in the revitalised Pacific Leaders Gender Equality Declaration (PLGED).
This includes championing the engagement of men and boys in transforming social norms to advance women’s rights.
In relation, the communique stated that recognising cross-sectorial significances, leaders also endorsed Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) as well as the institutionalisation of Early Childhood Development (ECD) as standing agenda items within the PCD (People Centered Development) Thematic Area on the Leaders’ Agenda while also taking into account the ongoing work on the RRA (Review of Regional Artitechture).
To add on, as stated, leaders also support the mainstreaming of GESI in all key regional policy priorities with the inclusion of climate financing, governance, implementation structures of the PRF and the inclusion of women’s voices in peace and security dialogues and decision-making processes.
The 54th PIF leader’s communique notes that the 54th PIF leaders also welcomed the Pacific’s global leadership, being the only region to host human rights treaty body reporting of the 84th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC84) in Samoa in 2020 and the Pacific Technical Cooperation Session of the CEDAW Committee in Fiji in April 2025.
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