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December 12, 2008
Congratulations! Mr. Setareki Macanawai
We found the following good news about Mr. Setareki Macanawai, Executive Director of Fiji National Council for Disabled Persons. Chief Executive of Pacific Disability Forum, and former participant of Leaders' course 1999.
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Four Pacific Islanders get human rights awards
08 December, 2008
Radio New Zealand International
Four Pacific Islanders have been honoured with human rights awards to mark the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Papua New Guinea's Cabinet Minister, Dame Carol Kidu, won the overall award for her outstanding contribution to promoting the rights of Pacific Islanders.
Setareki Macanawai of the Pacific Disability Forum and Andonia Piau-Lynch of the Vanuatu Disability Promotion and Advocacy Association received special citations for advancing the rights of
persons with disabilities.
And Lynnsay Rongokea-Francis, a Cook Islander currently working with the Asia Pacific Forum for Women, Law and Development, received special recognition for her long-standing support for the rights of women.
Organised by the Pacific Regional Rights Resource Team the awards were presented in a ceremony in Suva last Friday by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Secretary General Tuiloma Neroni Slade and International Human Rights Officer Tanya Smith of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=43543
more information about Mr. Setaraki
http://www.jicafriends.jp/projects/project/asiaandpacific/fiji/fiji01.html
Posted by jicafriends at December 12, 2008 02:07 PM