Bio

Tara Chetty is a feminist activist from Suva, with a long history of engagement with the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement. She was a former FWRM Management Board member, Young Women’s Working Group member and a former Communications Officer. Tara left the Movement in 2009, to pursue an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies in the United States, on a Fulbright scholarship. During her academic research, she worked with the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRDIC), then based out of the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University. After graduation in 2011, Tara returned to Fiji and human rights work in the Pacific, with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Pacific Regional Office. Tara is an alumna of the first DAWN Training Institute (DTI). She has a strong thematic focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including through international and regional advocacy. In her current role as Manager of Programs (Pacific Women Lead) at the Pacific Women Support Unit, she provides technical support to the Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development program, a gender equality effort.