Katalaina Malua

Katalaina Malua BEM, also known by her married name Katalaina Kokea, is a Tuvaluan women's rights advocate. She is President of the Tuvalu National Council of Women (TNCW).

Life

Katalaina Malua trained at the Community Education and Training Centre in Suva, Fiji, graduating in 1974. She married a pharmacist.[1]

In the 1981 New Year Honours she received the British Empire Medal for "services to the Women's Interest Section of the Ministry for Social Services".[2]

In 2002 Malua called for women to play a greater role in the Tuvaluan political process.[3] Later that year she was among a delegation accompanying Tomasi Puapua to the United Nations in New York.[4]

References

  1. ^ Samantha Rose, Waves forChange: the role of the South Tarawa-based women’s interests program in the decolonisation process of the Gilbert Islands, PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014, p.128.
  2. ^ "No. 48475". The London Gazette (9th supplement). 30 December 1980. p. 55.
  3. ^ Women in Tuvalu seek greater role in the political process, RNZ, 3 July 2002. Accessed 12 December 2020.
  4. ^ The Permanent Mission of Tuvalu to the United Nation at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 May 2006)
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