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Katalaina Malua

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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

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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 Tulaluan political process.[3] Later that year she was among a delegation accompanying Tomasi Puapua to the United Nations in New York.[4]

References

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  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)