Laura Tàunâjik
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{{Short description|Greenlandic politician (born 1979)}}
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
Laura Tàunâjik was born in Kuummiit in 1979,{{sfn|Tàunâjik|p=1}} in the house her grandparents lived in.{{sfn|Tàunâjik|p=1}}
Career
Tàunâjik was a Siumut member of the Inatsisartut,{{sfn|Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa|2020}} the parliament of Greenland,{{sfn|Nanoq Media|2017}} first elected in 2014.{{sfn|Tàunâjik|p=2}} She was chairman of the committee on law,{{sfn|Tàunâjik|Hansen|Kielsen|Chemnitz Larsen|2015|p=1}} and a member of the committees on culture and education,{{sfn|Tàunâjik|p=2}} and on family and health.{{sfn|Tilioq|2020}} She was also a municipal council member for Sermersooq, first elected in 2017.{{sfn|Tàunâjik|p=2}}
Her work as a member of the Inatsisartut includes advocating for a women's center to be built in Tasiilaq.{{sfn|Rasmussen|2016}} 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.{{sfn|Rasmussen|2016}} About 1.3 million krone were appropriated in a proposed budget to build the center by the government of Sermersooq.{{sfn|Rasmussen|2016}} Her work also included listening to testimony from Tilioq, a disability rights group.{{sfn|Tilioq|2020}} She retired from the Inatsisartut in 2020 to care for her family, as she had one small child and was pregnant.{{sfn|Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa|2020}} After her retirement, she kept her position in Sermersooq, and took on a job as a teacher in the village of Kuummiit.{{sfn|Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa|2020}}
In the Sermersooq municipal council, as of 2021 she is a member of the committee on children and family.{{sfn|Kristensen|2021}}
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- {{cite news |last1=Kristensen |first1=Kassaaluk |title=Charlotte Ludvigsen indsættes som borgmester |url=https://sermitsiaq.ag/node/229075 |access-date=30 November 2021 |work=Sermitsiaq.AG |date=3 May 2021 |language=da |trans-title=Charlotte Ludvigsen is installed as mayor}}
- {{cite news |last1=Rasmussen |first1=Inge S. |title=Qimarnguimmik Tasiilami pilersitsisoqalerpoq |url=https://knr.gl/kl/nutaarsiassat/qimarnguimmik-tasiilami-pilersitsisoqalerpoq |access-date=30 November 2021 |work=Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa |date=18 August 2016 |language=kl |trans-title=A place for people in Tasiilaq}}
- {{cite web |last1=Tàunâjik |first1=Laura |title=CV |url=https://ina.gl/media/2534569/cv-laura-táunâjik-da-l.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828035621/https://ina.gl/media/2534569/cv-laura-t%C3%A1un%C3%A2jik-da-l.pdf |url-status=dead |language=da |archive-date=28 August 2018}}
- {{cite web |last1=Tàunâjik |first1=Laura |last2=Hansen |first2=Justus |last3=Kielsen |first3=Ineqi |last4=Chemnitz Larsen |first4=Aaja |last5=Bianco |first5=Iddimanngiiu |title=Betænkning afgivet af lovudvalget vedrørende 2015/101 |url=https://www.ft.dk/samling/20151/lovforslag/L35/bilag/4/1561209/index.htm |access-date=30 November 2021 |language=da |date=8 May 2015 |trans-title=Report submitted by the Law Committee on 2015/101}}
- {{cite news |title=Laura Táunâjik Uitsatikitseq vil trække sig fra Inatsisartut |url=https://knr.gl/da/nyheder/laura-t%C3%A1un%C3%A2jik-uitsatikitseq-vil-tr%C3%A6kke-sig-fra-inatsisartut |access-date=30 November 2021 |work=Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa |date=3 September 2020 |language=da |ref={{harvid|Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa|2020}} |trans-title=Táunâjik Uitsatikitseq will retire from Inatsisartut}}
- {{cite news |title=Opsøgende arbejde |url=https://nanoqmedia.gl/da/nyhed/laura-taujanik/ |access-date=30 November 2021 |work=Nanoq Media |date=17 January 2017 |language=da-DK |trans-title=Outreach work |ref={{harvid|Nanoq Media|2017}}}}
- {{cite web |title=Mangel på uddannede handicapfaglige medarbejder |url=https://tilioq.gl/mangel-paa-uddannede-handicapfaglige-medarbejder/ |website=Tilioq |access-date=30 November 2021 |language=da |date=23 September 2020 |ref={{harvid|Tilioq|2020}} |trans-title=Lack of trained disability staff}}
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