Motarilavoa Hilda Lin̄i

Motarilavoa Hilda Lin̄i
Motarilavoa Hilda Lin̄i
	Liñi in 1989
Minister of Justice, Culture and Women's Affairs
	In office; October 1996 – November 1996
Preceded by	Joe Natuman
Succeeded by	Walter Lini
Minister of Rural Water Supply and Health
	In office; 1991–1995
Member of Parliament from the Constituency of Port Vila
	In office; 1987–1996
Personal details
Born	7 September 1954; Pentecost Island, New Hebrides (now Nanuatu)
Died	25 May 2025 (aged 70); Port Vila, Vanuatu
Relations	Walter Lini (brother)
Alma mater	University of Papua New Guinea
Awards	Nuclear-Free Future Award (2005)

Motarilavoa Hilda Lin̄i^[1] (7 September 1954^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] – 25 May 2025) was a Ni-Vanuatu politician, a tribal chief of the Turaga nation of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific, who was associated with the nuclear-free Pacific movement, women's rights, indigenous rights, and environmental issues.

An alumna of the University of Papua New Guinea, following Vanuatu's independence in 1980, she became one of the first two women elected to the Parliament of Vanuatu, in 1987.

She served as member of parliament until 1996. During the early 1990s, as Minister of Health, she helped to persuade the World Health Organization to bring the question of the legality of nuclear weapons to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. She was briefly Minister of Justice, from October 1996 to November 1996.^[6] She received The Nuclear-Free Future Award in 2005.^[7] She was a sister of Vanuatu's first Prime Minister, Walter Lin̄i.

Lin̄i died at Port Vila Central Hospital in Port Vila on 25 May 2025, at the age of 70.^[8]

References

^ The letter ⟨n̄⟩ of Raga orthography is pronounced [ŋ], like the ng in singer.
^ Index Li-Ll
^ "Hilda Lini – BetterWorld.net/heroes – Biography". BetterWorld.net. Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
^ Reichl, Matthias; Reichl, Maria (20 October 2007). "Rede von Hilda Lini: Atomgefahren im Pazifik" [Speech by Hilda Lini: Nuclear threats in the Pacific]. Cultural Broadcasting Archive [de] (in German and English) (published 18 March 2010). Archived from the original on 26 May 2025. Retrieved 26 May 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ "Motarilavoa Hilda Lini". Official website of the village of Smolec (in Polish). Archived from the original on 21 March 2025. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
^ "Hon Hilda Lini". Pacific Women in Politics.
^ The Nuclear-Free Future Award Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, 'a trailblazer' for Vanuatu women in politics, has died". Radio New Zealand. 26 May 2025. Retrieved 26 May 2025.

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