Laura Tàunâjik
Laura Tàunâjik Uitsatikitseq (born 1979) is a Greenlandic politician. She was a Siumut member of the Inatsisartut from 2014 to 2020, when she resigned to care for her children. From 2017 onward, she was a member of the municipal council for Sermersooq. Her work included advocacy for victims of domestic violence.
Early life
[edit]Laura Tàunâjik was born in Kuummiit in 1979,[1] in the house her grandparents lived in.[1]
Career
[edit]Tàunâjik was a Siumut member of the Inatsisartut,[2] the parliament of Greenland,[3] first elected in 2014.[4] She was chairman of the committee on law,[5] and a member of the committees on culture and education,[4] and on family and health.[6] She was also a municipal council member for Sermersooq, first elected in 2017.[4]
Her work as a member of the Inatsisartut includes advocating for a women's center to be built in Tasiilaq.[7] She said that due to the severity of domestic violence in the town—the second most of any location in Greenland, and Eastern Greenland having maternal domestic violence rates as high as 25 percent—it was necessary for a women's shelter to be built.[7] About 1.3 million krone were appropriated in a proposed budget to build the center by the government of Sermersooq.[7] Her work also included listening to testimony from Tilioq, a disability rights group.[6] She retired from the Inatsisartut in 2020 to care for her family, as she had one small child and was pregnant.[2] After her retirement, she kept her position in Sermersooq, and took on a job as a teacher in the village of Kuummiit.[2]
In the Sermersooq municipal council, as of 2021 she is a member of the committee on children and family.[8]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b Tàunâjik, p. 1.
- ^ a b c Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa 2020.
- ^ Nanoq Media 2017.
- ^ a b c Tàunâjik, p. 2.
- ^ Tàunâjik et al. 2015, p. 1.
- ^ a b Tilioq 2020.
- ^ a b c Rasmussen 2016.
- ^ Kristensen 2021.
Bibliography
[edit]- Kristensen, Kassaaluk (3 May 2021). "Charlotte Ludvigsen indsættes som borgmester" [Charlotte Ludvigsen is installed as mayor]. Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- Rasmussen, Inge S. (18 August 2016). "Qimarnguimmik Tasiilami pilersitsisoqalerpoq" [A place for people in Tasiilaq]. Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (in Kalaallisut). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- Tàunâjik, Laura. "CV" (PDF) (in Danish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2018.
- Tàunâjik, Laura; Hansen, Justus; Kielsen, Ineqi; Chemnitz Larsen, Aaja; Bianco, Iddimanngiiu (8 May 2015). "Betænkning afgivet af lovudvalget vedrørende 2015/101" [Report submitted by the Law Committee on 2015/101] (in Danish). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- "Laura Táunâjik Uitsatikitseq vil trække sig fra Inatsisartut" [Táunâjik Uitsatikitseq will retire from Inatsisartut]. Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (in Danish). 3 September 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- "Opsøgende arbejde" [Outreach work]. Nanoq Media (in Danish). 17 January 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- "Mangel på uddannede handicapfaglige medarbejder" [Lack of trained disability staff]. Tilioq (in Danish). 23 September 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- 1979 births
- 21st-century Danish women politicians
- 21st-century Greenlandic politicians
- 21st-century indigenous leaders of the Americas
- 21st-century indigenous women of the Americas
- Greenlandic city councillors
- Greenlandic Inuit women
- Living people
- Members of the Parliament of Greenland
- People from Sermersooq
- Siumut politicians
- Danish women activists
- Inuit activists
- Inuit politicians
- Women local politicians
- Women members of the Parliament of Greenland