Hilda Lini

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Motarilavoa Hilda Lini is a politician and journalist from Vanuatu .

Career

Lini is the chief of the Turaga from Pentecost Island, which belongs to Vanuatu .

As early as 1970, at the age of 17, when she was still attending the British Secondary School, Lini began to get involved in the New Hebridean Cultural Association , the later Vanua'aku Pati . During the holidays, she helped her brother Walter Hadye Lini out in the party newspaper Vanua'aku Viewpoints . 1973/1974 she took part in student protests and later went to the state capital Port Vila . In 1975 the Vanua'aku Pati won the first elections in the Anglo-French New Hebrides condominium . In February 1976 Hilda Lini was elected as the new editor of the Vanua'aku Viewpoints , succeeding her brother by the party congress . In 1977 she also became the coordinator of the party program to mobilize women for the independence movement. She also helped with the youth program, organizing demonstrations for the right to vote from the age of 18.

1979 Lini was able to study journalism at the University of Papua New Guinea with the help of a grant from the Australian Council of Churches . She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. In September 1979, she had interrupted her studies to take part in the elections. As a woman, she encountered a lot of resistance, also because she was the sister of Walter Hadye Lini, who later became the first Prime Minister of Vanuatu . Hilda Lini voluntarily withdrew her candidacy. As a result, not a single woman was nominated for the parliamentary elections. Hilda Lini resumed her studies and only returned to Vanuatu in November for the election campaign. The resistance was also a reason why she was not given a government post in the government after the Vanua'aku Pati electoral victory.

After completing her studies, Hilda Lini founded a newspaper in January 1980, the Nasiko ( German  Eisvogel ). She saw the paper as a watchdog and criticized both her party and her brother's government. Topics such as environmental protection, women's rights and development policy were important to her. Six months later, the newspaper had to close for financial reasons. Most of the income came from French companies that ran advertisements but closed them as the debate about independence increased. Vanuatu gained independence in July 1980. In 1991, Lini criticized the state media's proximity to the government.

In 1982 the South Pacific Commission (SPC) sought a director for its women's program. At the time, Lini was Vice President of the National Women's Council, YWCA , the Pacific Council of Churches, and the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific NFIP. She applied to the SPC and became the first Vanuatuer to hold a senior position in an international organization. She founded the South Pacific Commission Women's Bureau in Nouméa , the capital of French New Caledonia . France had difficulties with Lini, as she had previously supported the independence movement of New Caledonia (as well as those in West Papua and East Timor ) and fought against the nuclear tests in the Pacific. Lini stayed until 1986, but then had to leave after making a speech at a UN women's forum in Nairobi, calling for a nuclear test ban.

After her return to Vanuatu, she was elected as the first woman to the parliament of Vanuatu in November 1987 , seven years after the island state gained independence. Until 1998 she represented the state capital Port Vila there. In the first legislature until 1991 for the Vanua'aku Pati, then for the National United Party (NUP) .

In 1990, Lini became editor of the Vanuatu glossy magazine Pacific Island Profile, which had to be discontinued the following year due to a lack of advertising income.

From 1991 to 1995, Lini was Minister for Rural Water Supply and Health. In 1993 she was also the acting Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism and from October to November 1996 Minister for Justice, Culture and Women. In 1996 she was followed by her brother, former Prime Minister Walter Hadye Lini . Hilda Lini then left her brother's NUP and founded her own party, the Tu Vanuatu kominiti . Another brother, Ham Lini , was Prime Minister from 2004 to 2008.

Lini played a central role in the World Health Organization's (WHO) decision to allow the World Court of Justice to issue a request on the legal status of nuclear weapons.

From 2000 to 2004, Hilda Lini was the director of the Pacific Concerns Resource Center .

In the parliamentary elections in 2012, Lini ran again unsuccessfully for the party Universal Ethnic System . In 2019 the candidacy for the new Leleon Vanua Democratic Party (LVDP) followed.

Awards

Because of her engagement against nuclear weapons, Hilda Lini received the Sean MacBride Peace Prize in 1993 and the Nuclear-Free Future Award in Oslo in 2005 .

In 2014, Lini was awarded the Insígnia des Ordem de Timor-Leste by the president of the now independent East Timor, Taur Matan Ruak . Like Barak Sopé , the second Vanuatuer to be honored, she was unable to receive the medal in person at the ceremony on August 30, as the Foreign Ministry did not provide Vanuatu with the travel documents on time.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Nuclear-Free Future Award Oslo2005 Isamme ånd som World Uranium Hearing
  2. ↑ a b c d e Pacific Woman in Politics: Vanuatu - Hon Hilda Lini
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Green Left Weekly: Hilda Lini, crusader for peace and women's rights , October 23, 1991, issue 32 , accessed on November 24, 2019.
  4. ^ Parliament of Vanuatus: Members of 3rd Legislature , accessed on November 24, 2019.
  5. ^ Vanuatu Parliament: Members of 4th Legislature , accessed November 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ Parliament of Vanuatus: Members of 5th Legislature , accessed on November 24, 2019.
  7. ↑ Parliament of Vanuatus: Members of 6th Legislature , accessed November 24, 2019.
  8. ↑ International Peace Bureau: Seán MacBride Peace Prize , accessed November 24, 2019.
  9. ^ Pacific Institute of Public Policy: The Waiting Game , November 15, 2012 , accessed November 24, 2019.
  10. ↑ Hilda Lini to be candidate of Leleon Vanua Democratic Party in Port Vila , May 2019 , accessed on November 24, 2019.
  11. ↑ Jornal da República: Decreto do Presidente da República n ° 25/2014 , August 27, 2014 , accessed on November 13, 2019.
  12. ↑ Nominees Sope and Lini miss Timor Leste award , September 2, 2014 , accessed on November 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lini, Hilda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lini, Motarilavoa Hilda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vanuatu politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century