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Imrana trains non government organisations (NGOs) in the Pacific on how to mount campaigns to improve human rights in Pacific Island countries and works with government agencies on how to integrate human rights into their work.
A lawyer by profession, Imrana was a commissioner of the new Fiji Human Rights Commission until she resigned following the coup d'etat in May 2000. She is now the architect of the new Family Law Act 2003, which addresses children's needs and removes discrimination against women.
Imrana has also served as a barrister and solicitor in the Attorney General's Office of Fiji, as public legal advisor, as a columnist, and as an advisor to many UN agencies.
She is a founding member of a key NGO, the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, and sits on the board of the International Council of Human Rights Policy in Geneva.
In 2000 the University of the South Pacific named Imrana one of 73 persons in Fiji who has shaped the nation’s destiny. In 2005 Pacific magazine named her one of 227 Pacific Island leaders who was critical to the Pacific Island’s future.
Imrana was also recently elected to the internationally prestigious Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists as its most recent commissioner
A lawyer by profession, Imrana was a commissioner of the new Fiji Human Rights Commission until she resigned following the coup d'etat in May 2000. She is now the architect of the new Family Law Act 2003, which addresses children's needs and removes discrimination against women.
Imrana has also served as a barrister and solicitor in the Attorney General's Office of Fiji, as public legal advisor, as a columnist, and as an advisor to many UN agencies.
She is a founding member of a key NGO, the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, and sits on the board of the International Council of Human Rights Policy in Geneva.
In 2000 the University of the South Pacific named Imrana one of 73 persons in Fiji who has shaped the nation’s destiny. In 2005 Pacific magazine named her one of 227 Pacific Island leaders who was critical to the Pacific Island’s future.
Imrana was also recently elected to the internationally prestigious Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists as its most recent commissioner
