Английская Википедия:Faʻatino Masunu Utumapu

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FaШаблон:Okinaatino Mataafa Utumapu (born 1982) is a disability rights activist from Samoa.

Background

Utumapu, the daughter of Reverend Taito Masunu and Senerita Utumapu of TuanaШаблон:Okinai, grew up in Safotu, on the island of [[SavaiШаблон:Okinai]]. She attended Wesley College (in Apia) and Manurewa High School.[1]

Career

In 2014, her advocacy around the value of identifying people with disabilities led to Samoa being the first Pacific country to collect information on disability. As a result, disability was included in the country's 2014 Demographic and Health Survey and 2016 National Census.[2][3] In 2016 Utumapu also led the registration of people with disabilities during the national elections in Samoa, the first time the category had been included during an election.[2]

Utumapu's advocacy work has also supported the creation of the Wheelchair Users Association of Samoa and Samoa Association of the Deaf.[2]

Utumapu was selected as one of ten disability leaders in the Pacific region to facilitate in the regional implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.[2] She is the Co-chair for the Pacific committee of youth with disabilities, a member of the Pacific Disability Forum's Resource Team.[4]

Utumapu currently works with Nuanua O Le Alofa, an advocacy organisation for persons with disabilities in Samoa, and represented the organisation at the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York.[5]

As a female matai, she is considered a community leader.[2] She is also an executive member of the Samoa Umbrella for Non Governmental Organisations.[1]

Awards

In 2017 Mataafa received the Pacific Disability Forum's Pasifika Award.[6] In January 2021 she was announced as one of the Samoa Observer's "people of 2020".[7]

References

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