Bureieta Karaiti

Bureieta Karaiti was general secretary of the Kiribati Protestant Church (CCP), the second largest religious group in Kiribati .

As a representative of the church, Karaiti has often addressed social issues ( prostitution , children's rights, etc.). He received particularly wide attention with various statements on climate change , as the Pacific Islands , above all Kiribati, are severely affected by global warming .

“There is only one way that Kiribati will survive climate change: We have to get away from here, including our culture. Which of course creates a lot of problems if we are simply torn out of our centuries-old tradition. Or we stay and die here. "

Individual evidence

1. ^ Climate Change and Kiribati. In: Europe Pacific Solidarity Bulletin. vol. 14, no. 2, May – July 2006.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Traditional treatment of girls link to prostitution in Kiribati. Kiribati News Agency, June 4, 2007.
3. ↑ United States State Department, Kiribati. In: International Religious Freedom Report 2007. state.gov, accessed March 4, 2008.
4. ↑ tv.orf.at : How climate change is changing the earth and what it will make of it in 100 years.

literature

• Harald Werber: Kiribati: political and economic change during the protectorate period 1892–1916. (= Oceania. Volume 2). LIT Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50299-5 .
• Kiribati: Aspects of History. [e-mail], 1984, ISBN 982-02-0051-2 , p. 7ff.

Web links

• tv.orf.at
• rnz.co.nz 2006.