Jale Daucakacaka
6 March, 2021, 8:45 pm
Prominent artist Aggie Vakaloloma belts out a few tunes in front of the jam-packed Sukuna Park during the STC Yasa Appeal Music Concert in Suva. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA /FILE
A HOST of renowned local female artists will frontline the Fiji Women’s Rights Movements’ (FWRM) “If Women Stop, the World Stops” concert that will be held at Ratu Sukuna Park in Suva next week.
FWRM executive director Nalini Singh said the concert would feature renowned artists such as ‘Vude Queen’ Laisa Vulakoro, Georgina Ledua, Aggie Vakaloloma and Natalie Raikadroka to celebrate International Women’s Day.
“We are organising the second such concert, in solidarity with the Women’s Global Strike, which is our symbolic strike action calling for women to stop or slow down their formal or care work and demand the recognition of women’s rights,” she said.
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