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PACFAW PNG PNGDF PTI RAH RRRT RTZ SPDC SRAH SRVAW STD UDHR UNCHR UNDP UNICEF UNIFEM VAW WCAR WSSD Pacific Foundation for <strong>the</strong> Advancement <strong>of</strong> Women Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Defence Forces Punanga Tauturu Women’s Counselling Inc. Right to Adequate Housing Regional Rights Resource Team Rio Tinto-Zinc (former name <strong>of</strong> mining company, now known as Rio Tinto) State Peace and Development Council Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Special Rapporteur on violence against women Sexually transmitted diseases Universal Declaration <strong>of</strong> Human Rights United Nations Commission on Human Rights United Nations Development Programme United Nations Children’s Fund United Nations Development Fund for Women Violence against women World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and O<strong>the</strong>r Forms <strong>of</strong> Related Intolerance World Summit on Sustainable Development EXECUTIVE SUMMARY V
Preface The Fiji Consultation on women and housing and land is <strong>the</strong> fifth in a series <strong>of</strong> civil society regional consultations that have played a critical role in unearthing <strong>the</strong> experiences <strong>of</strong> women facing violations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir right to adequate housing and land on a daily basis. These consultations have contributed enormously to <strong>the</strong> analysis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> state <strong>of</strong> women’s rights to housing and land contained in <strong>the</strong> three reports that comprise <strong>the</strong> global study on women and housing requested by <strong>the</strong> UN Commission on Human Rights in April 2003. Too <strong>of</strong>ten <strong>the</strong> United Nations is seen as a remote entity, operating at a level far removed from <strong>the</strong> grassroots. These regional consultations have served as a unique mechanism for bridging this gap, bringing toge<strong>the</strong>r grassroots women’s and civil society groups to fur<strong>the</strong>r inform <strong>the</strong> normative content <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> discourse on women’s right to adequate housing. Pursuant to this goal, <strong>the</strong> inter-regional consultation process has featured <strong>the</strong> training <strong>of</strong> participants from groups working on women’s rights and housing rights, through <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Habitat International Coalition – Housing and Land Rights Network Tool Kit, on strategies and methodologies for <strong>the</strong> prevention <strong>of</strong> violations, monitoring, advocating for, and overcoming obstacles to women’s enjoyment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir rights to adequate housing and land. Central to this process have also been <strong>the</strong> individual, and <strong>of</strong>ten intimate and courageous testimonies, provided by grassroots women and organizations working at <strong>the</strong> local and national level to inform UN processes. The testimonies at Fiji were particularly informative, received from a diversity <strong>of</strong> women and men from communities and civil society organizations across <strong>the</strong> region, including Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Kiribati, Cook Islands, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and indigenous Australia. Each testimony explored <strong>the</strong> specificities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> contexts in which women were facing considerable violence and discrimination in <strong>the</strong>ir efforts to claim <strong>the</strong>ir human rights, and highlighted <strong>the</strong> vital contribution such grassroots dialogues <strong>of</strong>fer to informing more amply <strong>the</strong> core content <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> right to adequate housing. As <strong>the</strong> issues <strong>of</strong> land and housing tend to feature prominently within <strong>the</strong> everyday language <strong>of</strong> Pacific cultures and societies, <strong>the</strong> Fiji consultation sought to focus on <strong>the</strong> interlinkages between women’s access to land, housing and inheritance rights and <strong>the</strong> customary laws and traditions that typically govern decision-making processes related to such issues. In addition, <strong>the</strong> related issues <strong>of</strong> urbanisation and migration were also explored, with an eye toward fur<strong>the</strong>r clarifying <strong>the</strong>ir connection to <strong>the</strong> lack <strong>of</strong> adequate housing. VI WOMEN’S RIGHTS TO ADEQUATE HOUSEING AND LAND
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