Fiji, March 5 -- The President of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly today visited Suva Market where he met with market vendors and partners of the Markets for Change Project to discuss progress on women's economic empowerment.

Delivered in partnership with the Governments of Australia and Canada, Markets for Change is UN Women's flagship programme for women's economic empowerment in the Pacific. Markets for Change works to ensure marketplaces in areas of Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu are safe, inclusive and non-discriminatory, to promote gender equality and women's economic empowerment.

"Between 75 to 90 percent of all vendors across the Pacific are women. It was great to hear from the vendors how Markets for C...