Pauline Tangiora

Maori Elder,
Peace, Indigenous Rights, Nuclear Disarmament Advocate
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
World Future Council

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birthplace:
Rongomaiwahine Tribe on the East Coast of the North Island of Aotearoa
(New Zealand)

Pauline Tangiora is a Maori elder from the Rongomaiwahine Tribe on the East Coast of the North Island of Aotearoa (New Zealand). She is the former president and currently vice president of Womens International League for Peace & Freedom Aotearoa, former representative for the World Council for Indigenous Peoples, a member of the Earth Council and an Earth Charter commissioner, life member of the Maori Women's Welfare League, and a committee member of Rigoberta Menchu Tum Nobel Laureate Indigenous Initiative for Peace. Pauline Tangiora has represented Aotearoa at many international meetings for peace, the environment, spiritual well-being and indigenous rights. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the 1000 Women for Peace project. Pauline Tangiora is one of the 50 Council Members of the World Future Council, an international organization created by Right Livelihood Award founder, Jakob von Uexkull, which works for a sustainable future in the fields of environment,, governance, human development and human rights and peace.

 

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