Tribute to Amelia Rokotuivuna
FIJIAN FEMINIST WHO FOUGHT FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Amelia was a force in our lives, we would not be where we are today without meeting someone like her in our early days as students and being drawn into work on issues that, for us, could have always remained academic, without her leadership and noisy argumentative debate. It helped that she was fun, dynamic, sponsored dinners and half meals, in exchange for our writing and involvement in her committees. Our personal and professional development too, would have been very different, if we had not had the good fortune to meet this person, here in Suva, in the Young Women’s Christian Association (of all places), and to forever have our perspectives, book learning and understanding challenged by her. She provided us with practical experience, an organization to float in and out of, and her office was an extraordinary place enabling us to feel centred in our activism – whether it be on Fiji, or women’s rights, colonialism or nuclear testing. <Click to continue>

The Center for Women's Studies: the campus hub for gender concerns

Bangkok -- For an outsider like me, the University of the Philippines Center for Women's Studies (UPCWS) is a place where we always get invited to book launchings and lectures. Indeed, according to Carol Sobritchea, Executive Director, they have published around "100 books and IEC materials that are presently used in classroom teaching and research."