Ruby Dediya

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Ruby Dediya , married to Ruby Thoma (* 1949 in Nauru ), is a Nauru politician. She was a member of the Nauruan parliament from 1986 to 1992 and 1995 to 1997 . At times she was Minister of Health and Finance .

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Ruby Dediya was born in Nauru, but received her education in Australian schools in Victoria state . She attended the Church of England Grammar School in Gippsland and High School in Sale , where she was taught rhetoric and acting, among other things. She then trained as a nurse at Epworth Hospital in Richmond . She then studied the profession of midwife at the University of Christchurch , New Zealand . She later worked as a head nurse at the Nauru General Hospital.

1983 Dediya ran for the first time for the Nauruan parliament, but was not elected. In 1986 she ran again in the constituency of Anetan / Ewa , this time with success. She became Minister of Health in President Hammer DeRoburt's cabinet . Like all Naru MPs at the time, she was non-party . In 1987 and 1989 she was re-elected to parliament and held her seat until 1992. In the election that followed she was defeated by politician Lawrence Stephen in her constituency .

At the time, Dediya vehemently criticized the waste of public funds under the government of President Bernard Dowiyogo . With the People's Movement Association , which she founded and to which women mainly belonged, she demonstrated at the South Pacific Forum in 1993 against expensive prestige projects. She later organized the blockade of an Air Nauru plane used by politicians and their wives for overseas travel. Her anti-government activities resulted in Dediya losing her job as a midwife.

From 1995 to 1997 Dediya was again a member of parliament. In 1996 she was finance minister in a short-lived government. On November 28, 1996, during an absence from President Kennan Adeang , she was appointed "Acting President", representing him.

Dediya was the first woman to be elected to the Nauruan parliament and remained the only one until the election of Charmaine Scotty in 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alamanda Roland LautT, Jon Fraenkel: The First Woman in Parliament Ruby's Story. ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Developing a More Facilitating Environment for Women's Political Participation in Nauru. Pacific Islands forum secretariat, 2006, p. 130. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.forumsec.org.fj
  2. ↑ Report. Vol. 2, Commission of Inquiry into Rehabilitation of the Worked-out Phosphate Lands of Nauru, 1988, p. 1123.
  3. ↑ Micronesian politics. In: Pacific politics series. Vol. 3, Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific, Suva 1988, ISBN 978-9820200388 , p. 66.
  4. ↑ Country Report: Pacific Islands - Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Western Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga. The Unit, 1994, p. 59.
  5. ^ Jean Drage: Women's representation in the Pacific Islands. In: Werner vom Busch (Ed.): New Politics in the South Pacific. University of the South Pacific, 1994, ISBN 982-02-0115-2 , p. 170.
  6. ↑ Raymond D. Gastil: Freedom in the World. Freedom House, 1997, p. 382.
  7. ^ Female Ministers of Finance and Economy 1920-99 guide2womenleaders.com, accessed March 11, 2014.
  8. ^ Charmaine Scotty - second woman parliamentarian. In: Nauru Bulletin. 10-2013 / 86, Government Information Office, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Dediya, Ruby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thoma, Ruby (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nauruan politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Nauru