17 Urgent Demands of Pacific Feminists Defending the Living Planet

Pacific feminists are at the forefront of urgent struggles for climate, ecological, economic, and social justice, and human rights.

Please join us for a public forum featuring a discussion of 17 demands by Pacific feminists who have been organising for decades to call for systemic change to protect Pacific people, land, oceans, and our future. These demands are grounded in lived realities and the wisdom of generations of Pacific people. They reflect a vision for equity, ecological balance, sovereignty, justice, and liberation. 

Speakers

Sharon Bhagwan Rolls is a Fiji Island feminist with close to four decades of experience at the intersection of gender, media, communications, and peacebuilding. She co-founded the Pacific Women Mediators Network and serves as the Pacific Regional Gender Focal Point for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, engaging in regional processes on gender equality and peace. She is also the Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Lead (SPRML) of the Pacific Island Feminist Alliance for Climate Justice (PIFA4CJ). She is a former co-chair of the Global Fund for Women and former Board Chair of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). Bhagwan-Rolls continues to support women-led initiatives addressing the climate crisis and peacebuilding including coordinating the Pacific Women Mediators Network engagement in the development of the Pacific Islands Forum Oceans of Peace Declaration and the WPS Guidance Note for Pacific Forum Leaders.  

Noelene Nabulivou has been a Pacific gender expert and feminist analyst, activist, advocate, community organiser and trainer for over 40 years. A co-founder and International Adviser of DIVA for Equality and the new Strategic Analysis, Advocacy and Movement Building Adviser for PIFA4CJ. DIVA is co-convenor for the Pacific Islands Feminist Alliance for Climate Justice, Co-convenor of the Pacific LBQ Working Group; the Pacific Feminist SRHR Coalition, the Pacific Feminist Community of Practice, Pacific Feminists Defending the Living Planet, and more. Noelene holds many social movement roles from local to global. Noelene is Co-Chair for the Oceania Pacific Regional Steering Committee for Women Deliver 2026 #WD2026. Noelene has degrees in peacebuilding and international relations, and a diploma in Community Arts Management. She is well-known for cross-cutting work across feminist approaches to climate, DRR and ecological justice, SRHR, peacebuilding and more. Noelene lives and works in Nadi, Fiji.


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