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Nauru has the highest obesity ranking in the world; 97 per cent of men and 93 per cent of women are obese. In 2006, the average net monthly income was A$ 2,597 (A$3848 in 2014). The most significant sources of employment are phosphate mining , banking industries, and various coconut products.
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also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Nauruan This category exists only as a container for other categories of Nauruan women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Nauru became a member of the United Nations on 14 September 1999. [2] Of the nine core human rights treaties Nauru has ratified or acceded to four — the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (), the Convention Against Torture (), and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ().
Nauru, [c] officially the Republic of Nauru [d], formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in the Oceania region of the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba of Kiribati about 300 kilometres (190 mi) to the east.
Maria Gaiyabu is a Nauruan educator, writer, and politician. She served as Nauru's Secretary of Education. [1] She is the first educator from Nauru to earn a doctorate. [2]She earned a master's degree in elementary education in 1996 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with the thesis Elementary Schooling Practices, Post-Colonial Politics and the Struggle of Identity in Nauru. [3]
As there are no political parties in Nauru, Scotty sits as an independent. Her election made history: she is only the second woman in Nauruan history to be elected to Parliament, following Ruby Dediya (who was MP from 1986 to 1992 and from 1995 to 1997).