This #16DaysofActivism, House of Sarah and UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office released: We Are All Created Equal – Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls in Fiji’s Faith Settings – a paper, co-written for policy makers, practitioners and faith-based organisations working to prevent violence against women and girls in faith settings in Fiji, the Pacific, and beyond.
It describes the journey of House of Sarah, a faith-based civil society organisation in Suva, Fiji, working to prevent violence against women and girls, and documents evidence and lessons so that others may learn from and be inspired by their experience to adapt faith-based prevention programming to their own contexts.
The paper was launched by Reverend Dr Jolami Lasawa, Principal of Davuilevu Theological College, Methodist Church in Fiji; with addresses from the Reverend Sereima Lomaloma, Founder and Trustee, House of Sarah; Ms Sophie Temby, Counsellor, Development, Australian High Commission; and Ms Abigail Erikson, EVAWG Technical Advisor, UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office. There were also reflections from community activists’ part of the programme.
UN Women’s partnership with House of Sarah is though the Pacific Partnership programme, funded primarily by the European Union, and the Governments of Australia and New Zealand, and UN Women.
Thank you to everyone who informed the paper.
Vinaka Vakalevu
