A diverse range of people from across the Oceania region have applied for a scholarship to attend next year’s Proud: Re-stoke the Fires human rights and health conference. 22 applications have come in from as close to home as Auckland and Australia but also from our neighbours in Fiji, Vanuatu, Palau, Tarawa, Papua New Guinea, across Cook Islands, Tonga, Rarotonga and the Melanesian Islands. The ILGA Oceania Rainbow Human Rights and Health Conference aims to re-ignite the fires of the LGBTI community on issues of Human Rights and Health in the states of Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Melanesia and the Micronesian Islands. The successful scholars will be contacted early in the new year and the final number of successful applicants will be determined by travel costs. Co-organiser Mani Mitchell says: “We wish we had more scholarship money, we are however incredibly grateful to ILGA internationals grant which has enabled us to offer these scholarships.” The successful applicants will now be decided by the ILGA Oceania Board.
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First published: Thursday, 24th December 2015 - 9:35am