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Peace Boat is a Japan-based international non-governmental
and non-profit organization that works to promote peace, human rights, equal
and sustainable development and respect for the environment.
Peace Boat seeks to create awareness and action based on effecting positive
social and political change in the world. We pursue this through the
organization of global educational programmes, responsible travel, cooperative
projects and advocacy activities. These activities are carried out on a
partnership basis with other civil society organizations and communities in
Japan, Northeast Asia, and around the world.
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http://www.femlinkpacific.org.fj/
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Executive Director
femLINKPACIFIC YOUNG WOMAN LEADER IS
PEACE BOAT REPRESENTATIVE
Sulueti Waqa will be
representing femLINKPACIFIC aboard the Japan-based international NGO Peace
Boat, as it makes its way for its tenth visit, and the first since 2006, to
Fiji, on 29 March as part of a 103-day around-the-world voyage to promote
grassroots exchange and education about global issues.
23 year old Sulueti who
hails from Ba, has been a member of femLINKPACIFIC's Generation Next Project
for Young Women Producers and Broadcasters since 2007 and this year has become
a community media correspondent based at femLINKPACIFIC's Community Media
Centre in Suva, while continuing to contribute to the staging of the
organisation' weekend "suitcase radio" broadcasts and she departs
Fiji this week to join the Peace Boat in Tahiti.
While on the Peace
Boat, Sulueti will be sharing information about Fiji and the work of
femLINKPACIFIC, as part of a partnership programme between members of the
Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC).
Peace Boat was founded over 25 years ago by university students
in Tokyo who had a vision of travelling around the Asia Pacific region to learn
about war-time history from the victims and survivors of Japanese aggression.
Since then, Peace Boat has evolved into an NGO with United Nations consultative
status and is an influential member of Japanese civil society and the global
peace movement. It organizes 3 global voyages and 1 regional voyage each year,
and to date has brought more than 40,000 participants to over 80 countries
onboard a total of 68 voyages.
Co-founder and Director, Mr Yoshioka Tatsuya says, “I believe in
the power of ordinary people to make positive changes in our world. Peace Boat
helps to empower people by exposing them to a range of social, political,
cultural and environmental issues that they otherwise may not encounter. Most
importantly, we try to do this at the grassroots level by promoting
people-to-people centered exchange.”
The current 68th Global Voyage for Peace, with around 500
participants on board, departed from Japan in December 2009 15 ports of call
around the world including Taiwan, South Africa, Brazil and Chile. In the Pacific,
this voyage is calling to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) on March 15, and Tahiti on
March 22.
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