
Fiji Islander Sharon Bhagwan Rolls is known as a "suitcase radio" pioneer. As founder of the feminist-based non-government organisation femLINKPACIFIC, she has enabled women's voices and perspectives to be heard by political leaders using a simple mobile radio kit. Sharon has an acute interest in media and women, peace and security policy. She is Vice President of the National Council of Women in Fiji, in 2010 was appointed to the UN Civil Society Advisory Group on UNSCR1325/Women, Peace and Security, and in 2011 was appointed as co-chair of a Pacific Working Group for a Regional Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.