Kalisito Biaukula is a Fijian human rights activist, who is

vakasalewalewa Vakasalewalewa are people from Fiji, who were born assigned male at birth but who have a feminine gender expression. In Fiji this is understood as a traditional third gender identity, culturally specific to the country. Etymology The term comes f ...

. In 2019 they attended the Youth Assembly of International Civil Society Week. In 2022 they were part of a consultation effort organised by

United Nations Development Programme The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

(UNDP), in advance of the Stockholm 50 conference. They have worked for Youth Voices Count, a non-governmental organisation for LGBTQ+ youth who work to address human rights issues. They have also been outspoken on how, in some Fijian homes,

conversion therapy Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and cisgender norms. In contrast to evidence-based medicine and cli ...

is aligned with physical violence and

domestic abuse Domestic violence (also known as domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation. ''Domestic violence'' is often used as a synonym for ''intimate partner v ...

Selected publications

* Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman, et al. "The political, research, programmatic, and social responses to adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in the 25 years since the International Conference on Population and Development." ''Journal of Adolescent Health'' 65.6 (2019): S16-S40. * Plesons, M., Cole, C. B., Hainsworth, G., Avila, R., Biaukula, K. V. E., Husain, S., ... & Chandra-Mouli, V. (2019). Forward, together: a collaborative path to comprehensive adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in our time. ''Journal of Adolescent Health'', ''65''(6), S51-S62. * Biaukula, Kalisito, et al. "Young Key Populations in the HIV Response in the Asia and the Pacific" (2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Biaukula, Kalisito Vakasalewalewa Human rights activists LGBT rights activists Fijian activists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people