Candida Kaious Archives - The Marshall Islands Journal

‘We don’t whisper anymore’

By Journal on December 9, 2021 16 Days of Activism, Candida Kaious, Daisy Alik-Momotaro, Geovannie Johnson, Hilda Heine, Kathryn Relang, Kiki Stinnett, Marie Maddison, We Don't Whisper Anymore, Weto in Mour, women's crisis centers, WUTMI News Archive

A new publication featuring the people behind several women’s crisis centers in Pacific islands was issued this past week to coincide with the “16 Days of Activism.”“We Don’t Whisper Anymore” features the stories of women from Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Kiribati and other parts of the Pacific — though it is primarily focused on the Micronesia […]

Weto in Mour helps women

By Journal on May 25, 2017 Alison Birchall, Candida Kaious, Kathryn Relang, Weto in Mour News Archive

Attempting to keep harmony within Marshallese communities is paramount, so the norm is for members of the group to not speak out about domestic violence against themselves or other women because it would break ‘the harmony’. For the folk at Weto in Mour, this is a huge contradiction, because how can harmony, a word that […]