Ms. Vivania Ditukana Tatawaqa
Management Collective Member, DIVA for Equality
Viva Tatawaqa is a management collective member of Diverse Voices and Action for Equality in Fiji and RESURJ, a global alliance of feminists under 40 years of age, working for Sexual and Reproductive Justice. She is a young Pacific feminist grassroots community facilitator and mobilizer and works on many initiatives at local, national, regional and global levels on issues of universal human rights, social, economic, ecological and climate justice.
This includes Viva’s work as a co-convenor of the Pacific Partnerships on Gender, Climate change and Sustainable Development with groups across Pacific small island states; a youth and women led Pacific Urgent Action Hub for Climate Justice carrying community led analysis, advocacy campaigns and movement building work. Viva is also the founder, with other local LGBTI groups of an innovative peer based support group on SRHR, mental health and wellbeing, as well as a key activist in the Pacific Feminist SRHR Coalition.
As part of her work Viva is engaged in the Fiji Young Women’s Forum, Review
Beijing+20 Young Women’s Group, CSW Pacific young women’s group, Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights, and spends much of her time in urban poor, rural and remote organising, as well as following key global intergovernmental processes including HLPF, COP, CSW and others.
Addressing injustices and discrimination of all kinds has always been Viva’s
challenge and joy in her work, and being part of feminist social organising has been an empowering experience in her life and work.
This includes Viva’s work as a co-convenor of the Pacific Partnerships on Gender, Climate change and Sustainable Development with groups across Pacific small island states; a youth and women led Pacific Urgent Action Hub for Climate Justice carrying community led analysis, advocacy campaigns and movement building work. Viva is also the founder, with other local LGBTI groups of an innovative peer based support group on SRHR, mental health and wellbeing, as well as a key activist in the Pacific Feminist SRHR Coalition.
As part of her work Viva is engaged in the Fiji Young Women’s Forum, Review
Beijing+20 Young Women’s Group, CSW Pacific young women’s group, Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights, and spends much of her time in urban poor, rural and remote organising, as well as following key global intergovernmental processes including HLPF, COP, CSW and others.
Addressing injustices and discrimination of all kinds has always been Viva’s
challenge and joy in her work, and being part of feminist social organising has been an empowering experience in her life and work.