Julie Bishop address to Council 2010
— Keynote speakers 2009
The Hon Dame Carol Kidu DBE MP
Dame Carol Kidu was born and educated in Queensland. She moved to Papua New Guinea permanently in 1971 following her marriage in 1969 to the late Sir Buri Kidu who became the first indigenous Chief Justice of PNG.
Dame Carol’s professional background is in education and she was a teacher for 20 years. In 1997, after Sir Buri Kidu’s death, she was elected as an independent member of the PNG parliament. Between 1997 and 2002, Dame Carol facilitated the preparation of major legislative reforms to the criminal code on rape and sexual assault, as well as new legislation on child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children.
Following her re-election in 2002, Dame Carol became PNG's second female cabinet minister. As Minister of Welfare and Social Development she spearheaded a major shift in public policy to refocus social development away from a welfare model to an integrated community development approach. In 2007, Dame Carol was re-elected to the PNG parliament for the third time. She is currently the PNG Minister of Community Development and remains the only woman in the 109 member parliament.
Dame Carol was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005. In 2009 she was made a Knight of the Légion d’honneur for ‘her dedication to helping women, young girls, children, the physically and mentally impaired and her commitment to fighting discrimination’. She is the first PNG citizen to receive this French award.
Imrana Jalal
Imrana Jalal is the human rights advisor at the Regional Rights Resources Team (RRRT), a Pacific regional human rights project based in Fiji. She also trains NGOs in the Pacific on running campaigns to improve human rights in Pacific Island countries and works with government agencies on integrating human rights into their work.
Imrana is a founding member of the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement and works locally, regionally and internationally as a human rights lawyer. She sits on the board of the International Council of Human Rights Policy and is a commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists.
In 2000, the University of the South Pacific named Imrana as one of 73 people in Fiji who has shaped the nation’s destiny. In 2005, Pacific magazine named her one of 227 Pacific Island leaders who was critical to the Pacific Islands' future.
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