Linked with our presentations of Paddy Walker – Cook Islands, and of Comments by Paddy Walker.
PPSAEWA Pan-Pacific and South-East Asian Women’s Association:
Its Bulletin of April 2006.
Event: 23rd Annual Conference, New Zealand, March 21 to 27, 2007. Location: Telstraclear Pacific Arena in South Auckland. (Manukau City).
In 1928, in Honolulu, a group of women with international concerns, hoping to promote peace through understanding and friendship, convened to establish the Pan Pacific Woman’s Association. Later, the name was changed to more accurately reflect the Pan Pacific and South East Asia Women’s Association’s area of interest.
At the first International Conference, the primary activity was the exchange of national experience with the problems of women and children in and around the Pacific. Since 1930, international Conferences have been held approximately every three years, bringing women together for meetings, lectures, workshops, and cultural programmes concerned with women and families. Recent Conferences have been in the U.S.A. in 1981, Japan in 1984, and Australia in 1988. The XVII International Conference was held in Thailand in 1990 and was attended by 350 delegates from 22 countries in the Asia/Pacific region. By gracious invitation of Her Majesty Queen Mata’aho of Tonga, PPSEAWA held the XIX International Conference in August 1994 in Kuku’ Alofa, Tonga. The theme was: Women of Wisdom Are Pillars of Nations. There were 350 delegates from 21 countries of Asia and the Pacific. The XX conference was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 25-September 2, 1997.
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