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Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association (PPSEAWA), earlier Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA), is an international women's organization, founded in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1930. [1] The Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA) changed its name to Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association in 1955. [2]
In 1928, the First Pan-Pacific Women's Conference was organised in Honolulu under the umbrella of Pan-Pacific Union with the support of the New Zealand Women Teachers' Association. [3] It was the first international women's conference arranged outside of the Western world and in the Pacific region.
When the second Pan-Pacific Women's Conference was arranged on Honolulu on Hawaii in 1930, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association was founded. The Pan-Pacific Women's Association arranged the following Pan-Pacific Women's Conferences: Honolulu (1934 and 1949), Canada (1937), New Zealand (1952), The Philippines (1955) and Japan (1958).
The Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association's recent conference locations include Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2016), Taiwan (2019), and Wellington, New Zealand (2024).
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main and largest airport in Hawaii. The airport is named after Honolulu native and Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Inouye, who represented Hawaii in the United States Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012. The airport is in the Honolulu census-designated place 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of Honolulu's central business district. The airport covers 4,220 acres (1,710 ha), more than 1% of Oahu's land.
Patsy Matsu Mink was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. She served in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years as a member of the Democratic Party, initially from 1965 to 1977, and again from 1990 until her death in 2002. She was the first woman of color and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress, and is known for her work on legislation advancing women's rights and education.
Chaminade University of Honolulu is a private Marianist university in Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded in 1955 by the Society of Mary, Chaminade is located in Kaimuki, Honolulu at the base of St. Louis Heights. Chaminade offers bachelor's degrees in 23 fields of study and 5 master's degree programs. Chaminade University is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission.
Pago Pago International Airport, also known as Tafuna Airport, is a public airport located 7 miles (11.3 km) southwest of the central business district of Pago Pago, in the village and plains of Tafuna on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children is a Women's and Children's hospital, It is part of Hawaii Pacific Health's network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii within neighborhood of Moiliili. Kapiʻolani Medical Center is Hawaii's only children's hospital with a team of physicians and nurses and specialized technology trained specifically to care for children, from infants to young adults. It is the state's only 24-hour pediatric emergency department, pediatric intensive care unit and adolescent unit. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Hawaii.
Alice Henrietta Gertrude Basten was one of the first prominent female accountants in New Zealand, businesswoman and local politician.
Elsie Euphemia Andrews was a New Zealand teacher and community leader.
Amata Catherine Coleman Radewagen, commonly called Aumua Amata, is an American Samoan politician who is the current delegate for the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa. Radewagen, a Republican, was elected on November 4, 2014, after defeating Democratic incumbent Eni Faleomavaega; she was the first-ever Republican delegate since the office had been created in 1970 and began her tenure on January 3, 2015. She also serves as the national committeewoman for the Republican Party of American Samoa. Amata is the first woman to represent American Samoa in the U.S. Congress.
Marie Margaret Keesing was an anthropologist and educator with strong ties to the Pacific. With a degree in anthropology from the University of New Zealand, she spent most of her working life in the United States, where she worked closely with her husband, a fellow New Zealander and renowned anthropologist Felix Maxwell Keesing. She published a number of works, and co-authored several significant books with her husband, including Taming Philippine Headhunters: a Study of Government and of Cultural Change in Northern Luzon (1934) and Elite Communication in Samoa: A Study of Leadership (1956).
Elmina Rose Lucke was an American educator, social worker and international relations expert. After graduating from Oberlin College, she taught high school in Ohio and worked on social service projects before earning her doctorate in International Law and Relations from Columbia University. From 1927 to 1946, she taught at the Teachers College of Columbia making numerous trips abroad to study social work. In 1946, she moved to India to found the first master's degree program in Asia and second school of social work in the country, serving as its director for the next three years. Between 1950 and 1955, she served as a consultant to social work schools in Cairo, Egypt and Pakistan. From 1959 to 1965, she served as a delegate to the United Nations for various women's groups, presenting proposals on issues which impacted women. She was honored by the United Nations for her work in international relations in 1975 and was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1986.
The All-Asian Women's Conference (AAWC) was a women's conference convened in Lahore in January 1931. It was the first pan-Asian women's conference of its kind. Dominated by Indian organizers, "the AAWC was a vehicle for Indian women to voice their ideas and vision of an Indian-centred Asia". Its predecessor, the All Indian Women's Conference (AIWC), aimed to examine areas of education and legislation to improve the position of women. Like the AIWC, the AAWC aimed to expand this agenda in order to include women in Asia's vision for independence.
Tsuneko Yamada Gauntlett, born Yamada Tsune, was a Japanese temperance, suffrage, and peace activist. In 1937 she was international president of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association.
Raewyn Mary Dalziel is a New Zealand historian specialising in New Zealand social history.
William Justin Mullahey was an American airline executive who was a long-time employee of Pan American Airways, helping the company expand its presence across the Pacific. He also played a large role in developing tourism throughout the Pacific Islands, including leading the development of the Pacific Asia Travel Association.
Viopapa Annandale-Atherton is a Samoan medical doctor who has worked to improve the health of women and children in the Pacific Islands. She was the first Pacific Island woman to graduate from a New Zealand university.
Grace Pepe Malemo Haleck (1894–1987), from American Samoa, was the first nurse in that territory to receive training in the USA. She became American Samoa's chief nurse in 1926.
Pearl T. Sherrod, born Pearl T. Barnett, was an African American activist known for her advocacy for Black and Asian solidarity during the 1930s. Her involvement in Detroit-based organizations such as Nation of Islam (NOI) and The Development of our Own (TDOO) shaped her interest in promoting Black internationalist feminism through social justice work. She served as a leader of TDOO and was a journalist for the Detroit Tribune, advocating for civil rights, challenging racial inequality, and providing a voice for marginalized communities. Sherrod's landmark address at the 1937 Pan-Pacific Women’s Association conference highlighted racial violence in the United States and called for global Afro-Asian alliances against oppression.
The New Zealand Women Teachers' Association (NZWTA) was an advocacy group for the rights of teachers that engaged with the Government on a range of issues related to the status, pay scales, working conditions and opportunities for women teachers in the country from 1914 to 1964. Beginning as a number of regional organisations that had begun lobbying the New Zealand Government on education issues from 1901, by 1915 NZWTA was a national organisation with a constitution and elected committee that ran annual conferences and presented remits to the Government on behalf of the regions. The association was affiliated with the National Council of Women (NCW), worked with the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) and was a member of the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association which led later to the establishment of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association in 1930.
Pan-Pacific Union was an American organization founded in 1912 in Honolulu, Hawaii by Alexander Hume Ford. It was directed by men of every nation about the Pacific Ocean for the purpose of bringing the countries into close and more friendly relationship and understanding. A part of the Samuel Northrup Castle property in the Mānoa Valley became the headquarters of the Pan-Pacific Union.
The Pan-Pacific Women's Conference of 1928 was organised in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, at the Punahou Academy on 9-19 August 1928. It was convened under the auspices of the Pan-Pacific Union with the support of the New Zealand Women Teachers' Association. It was the first international women's conference arranged outside of the Western world and in the Pacific region. Subsequent Pan-Pacific Women's Conferences were convened by the Pan-Pacific Women's Association and the later by the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association. Jane Addams was the conference's international chair. Mrs. Francis M. Swanzy served as Honorary Chair of the Conference Committee and Mrs. A. L. Andrews served as Chair of the Conference Committee.