Women and the environment
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PACIFIC women will have the chance to get together in a series of meetings to discuss women and the environment in the next few years.
Supported by UNESCO and WHO, the Pan-Pacific and South East Asia Women’s Association (PPSEAWA) will host regional meetings in the Philippines this October, in New Zealand next April, then in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Another grant from UNESCO has allowed the organisation to produce a poster in eight languages promoting the
importance of the environment to family life. Based on a painting produced by American artist Joan Snyder, members will also take copies to the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Brazil next year.
Any that are left will be seen in Tonga, where the Association’s next plenary conference will be held in 1994 at the invitation of Princess Nanasipau’u Tuku’aho. 1994 will be the thirtieth anniversary of the previous conference to be held in Tonga, as well as the UN’s
“Year of the Family”. The expected 300
delegates will be attending.
Founded in Hawaii in 1928, the Association has now held 18 conferences, ast . °, ne attei l d .^ d delegates J^ om Tokelau, Tonga, Fiji, both Samoas, £. awail and . Ne T w L Zealand > and Pacifi c * lm T U has representatives to Mrs Shirley Munyan, who holds the latter position, negotiated the grant from UNESCO with ease. “No one else had asked” she says. At this year’s meeting of the UN’s Economic and Social Corn mission, PPSEAWA was one of two non governmental organisations attending. □