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Latest Journal Of Pacific Studies Looks At Peace-Building
13 February 2012 3:32pm | Pacific Media Watch
The University of the South Pacific has published a special themed edition of the Journal of Pacific Studies focusing on peace and conflict. Edited by Shailendra Singh and Dr Desmond Amosa, the journal has attracted papers exploring conflict prevention ... More >>
Defamation Protection For Regime Unwelcome, Advocacy Group
13 February 2012 3:25pm | Pacific Media Watch
http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/fiji-defamation-protections-regime-unwelcome-says-advocacy-group-7817 More >>
Czech Republic Diplomat visits University
13 February 2012 3:18pm | University Of The South Pacific
The Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Fiji, His Excellency, Dr Hynek Kmonicek recently paid a courtesy call to the University of the South Pacific. More >>
University Offers First-Ever Mandarin Course
13 February 2012 3:15pm | University Of The South Pacific
People in Fiji and around the region will now have the opportunity to learn the Chinese language by taking the Mandarin courses offered by the Confucius Institute at the University of the South Pacific. The University successfully launched the first Mandarin ... More >>
Sri Lanka: State Propaganda Machinery's Role
13 February 2012 3:10pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Not only the content but also the style of the propaganda issued by the state media is aimed at dulling the minds and discouraging independent thought within the nation. More >>
UNICEF Donates to those Affected by Floods
13 February 2012 3:03pm | UNICEF
In an effort to assist those most affected by the floods and landslides, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) donated emergency relief materials to the Fiji Red Cross Society for distribution. The donation of 4000 x 10 litre collapsible water containers and 500 ... More >>
Deep Seabed Minerals Licence For Nauru
13 February 2012 2:58pm | Secretariat of the Pacific Community
10th February 2012 With the International Seabed Authority (ISA) granting Nauru Ocean Resources Incorporation (NORI), a Nauru registered exploration company, the right to explore for deep seabed minerals in the International Seabed Area (known as “the ... More >>
Global Food Prices Rebound For First Time In Six Months – UN
13 February 2012 2:46pm | UN News
New York, Feb 9 2012 7:10PM Global food prices rose overall last month for the first time in six months, demonstrating the volatility of international food markets, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today. More >>
Security Council Hears Call For Closer UN/European Ties
13 February 2012 2:42pm | UN News
New York, Feb 9 2012 7:10PM A closer partnership between the United Nations and the 56-member Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world’s largest regional security grouping, is vital, the Security Council heard today. More >>
UN Assistance is Timely
13 February 2012 2:29pm | Citizens Constitutional Forum
Accepting the offer from the United Nations to send a Needs Assessment Mission is a timely decision by the Bainimarama Government and should be used to undertake further steps in ensuring there is transparency and full participation in the Constitution ... More >>
UN Urges All Sides In The Maldives To Avoid Retribution
13 February 2012 2:22pm | UN News
New York, Feb 9 2012 5:10PM A senior United Nations official urged all sides in the Maldives to exercise restraint and avoid acts of political retribution after he arrived in the Indian Ocean archipelago late today for talks, just days after the country’s ... More >>
UN-Backed Marine Expedition - Impact Of Climate Change
13 February 2012 1:58pm | UN News
New York, Feb 9 2012 5:10PM A United Nations-backed scientific expedition which has been travelling the world’s oceans for almost three years is in New York seeking to raise public awareness of the impact of climate change in oceans. More >>
ACP Group Targets South-South Solidarity Lead Up To Summit
13 February 2012 1:52pm | Pacific ACP Leaders
The Secretary General of the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) H. E Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas presented a list of key priorities for the organisation, setting the tone in the lead up to the ACP Heads of State Summit to be held this ... More >>
Tymperleys WILL be saved
13 February 2012 12:58pm | Wilkin And Sons
Following a tender process requiring interested parties to submit full details of their plans for the historic Tymperleys house in Essex, Colchester Borough Council has announced that Royal jam-maker Wilkin and Sons of Tiptree will be invited to ... More >>
Behind The Headlines: Doha Agreement Between Hamas And Fatah
13 February 2012 12:55pm | Embassy of Israel in Wellington
PA President Abbas cannot have it both ways, either he has a pact with Hamas or he has peace with Israel. If he implements the Doha agreement and joins forces with the enemies of peace, the PA would be abandoning the path of reconciliation with ... More >>
Gates Foundation Invests in Cutting-Edge TB Research
13 February 2012 12:43pm | The Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced $7.7 million in funding for 10 new grants to identify biomarkers for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in low-resource settings. This new grant program, Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis , ... More >>
Work Begins On UN-Backed Training Centre For Ex-Soldiers
13 February 2012 12:30pm | UN News
New York, Feb 9 2012 3:10PM The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan has helped to launch the construction of a training centre in the west of the country that is aimed at helping former soldiers disarm, demobilize and return to civilian ... More >>
STOCK Act Passes House - 'Political Intelligence' Omission
13 February 2012 9:28am | MAPLight.org
B>Feb. 9, 2012 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the STOCK Act today, which omits disclosure requirements for "political intelligence" workers that were included in the version of the bill passed by the Senate last week ( S ... More >>
Proposed bill promises to loosen restrictions on the press
12 February 2012 4:20pm | IFEX
(RSF/IFEX) - 9 February 2012 - Reporters Without Borders takes note of a government bill aimed at loosening Turkey's legislative straightjacket, especially as regards the media, and hopes that it represents a first step towards more significant reforms, ... More >>
"Tribune d'Afrique" journalist interrogated for six hours
12 February 2012 4:18pm | IFEX
Reporters Without Borders and Avocats sans Frontières (Lawyers Without Borders) are concerned about the safety of the staff of the regional bimonthly Tribune d'Afrique and their ability to work freely after one of its journalists, Max Savi Carmel, was ... More >>
Journalist attacked after reporting on police officers
12 February 2012 4:15pm | IFEX
(IPYS/IFEX) - On 7 February 2012, Oscar David Rodríguez Martínez, a writer for the newspaper "El Sol de los Andes" in Huancayo, was attacked by two individuals who took his documents and his cell phone. The journalist believes the attack is ... More >>
Asian Human Rights Commission and missing persons case
12 February 2012 4:11pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Supreme Court failed to indict the military in contempt of court in the case of missing persons. More >>
Blue Economy Needed to Protect World’s Oceans
12 February 2012 3:57pm | United Nations
The Mediterranean Sea is a “key pillar” for the development of the countries in the region, a senior United Nations official "http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2667&ArticleID=9025&l=en" >said today, warning that continued degradation of the aquatic environment could ... More >>
Rabuka needs to expose the coup plotters
12 February 2012 3:27pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND ( Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch ): Almost 25 years after committing treason by carrying out a military coup against a democraticallyelected government, Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka recently apologised to the Fiji public. More >>
Reporter found dead in Aceh, journalist arrested in West
12 February 2012 3:20pm | Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders is concerned by a series of media freedom violations in Indonesia in the past few days. At the same time, it has learned of the death of Darma Sahlan , a journalist working for the weekly Monitor Medan , whose body was ... More >>
Organisations participate in Global March to Jerusalem
12 February 2012 10:39am | Palestinian Forum
London: 10th Feb 2012 A number of Islamic, Arab and British Palestinian solidarity organisations will meet this Monday 13th Feb to discuss plans for activities of the Global March to Jerusalem. The meeting is on the invitation of the Palestinian Forum ... More >>
UN Calls for Justice After Killings of Displaced Persons
11 February 2012 2:57pm | United Nations
The United Nations political mission for Libya today voiced serious concern over the killing of seven internally displaced persons (IDPs), including three children and two women, and urged authorities to investigate the crime and bring those responsible ... More >>
UN Calls For Intervention For Palestinian Hunger Striker
11 February 2012 2:55pm | United Nations
The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process today called on Israel to do everything in its power to preserve the health of a Palestinian detainee who is on a hunger strike and to resolve the case. More >>
UN Welcomes Charges Against Army Colonel Over Mass Rapes
11 February 2012 2:53pm | United Nations
A senior United Nations official welcomed today the news that a Guinean court has filed charges against an army colonel accused of being responsible for mass rapes that occurred during a pro-democracy protest in the country’s capital in 2009. More >>
UN Invites Countries to Tune in for First World Radio Day
11 February 2012 2:50pm | United Nations
The role of radio as a facilitator of education, freedom of expression and public debate will be celebrated as "http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/world-radio-day/" >World Radio Day is observed for the first time on Monday by the United Nations Educational, ... More >>
Ban Urges Dialogue on Dispute Over Falkland Islands
11 February 2012 2:48pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced hope that Argentina and the United Kingdom can avoid escalating their dispute over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and resolve their differences through dialogue. More >>
Spanish Judge Should Not Be Prosecuted for Doing His Job
11 February 2012 2:46pm | United Nations
The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern at the trial of Judge Baltasar Garzón for probing alleged atrocities committed during Spain’s civil war, noting that the country is obliged under international law to investigate past ... More >>
General Assembly to Discuss Latest Developments in Syria
11 February 2012 2:44pm | United Nations
The General Assembly will meet on Monday to discuss the situation in Syria, where the death toll keeps rising as Government forces continue their bloody crackdown against a pro-democracy uprising. More >>
Increasing Electronic Waste in West Africa
11 February 2012 2:42pm | United Nations
West Africa is facing a significant increase in waste generated by electronic equipment which poses mounting health and environmental risks, according to a United Nations report released today. More >>
At Least 11 Somalis Perish in Gulf of Aden Boat Tragedy
11 February 2012 2:40pm | United Nations
At least 11 people have drowned and another 34 are missing in the latest boat tragedy in the Gulf of Aden, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. More >>
UN Agency Steps up Aid Delivery Mali Refugees
11 February 2012 2:38pm | United Nations
New York, Feb 10 2012 12:10PM The United Nations refugee agency said today it is stepping up the delivery of aid to people affected by the outbreak of conflict in Mali, where fighting between Government forces and Tuareg rebels has sent thousands ... More >>
UN Plan to Advance Progress on AIDS Targets
11 February 2012 2:35pm | United Nations
Asia-Pacific Nations Wrap up UN Forum with Plan to Advance Progress on AIDS Targets More >>
Learning From La Venezuela
11 February 2012 2:30pm | David Swanson
http://warisacrime.org/content/learning-la-venezuela Imagine that your son, your darling little boy, was killed during the past eight years in a war that served purely to kill a whole lot of Iraqis and enrich a small number of billionaires, while causing ... More >>
SITRABI Target of Deadly Anti-Union Repression in Guatemala
11 February 2012 2:23pm | ITUC
Brussels, 9 February 2012 (ITUC OnLine): Miguel Angel González Ramírez, a member of the Izabal banana workers' union SITRABI, was killed on 5 February. He was shot several times whilst carrying his young child in his arms. More >>
Progressive Jews Demand an End to Syrian Genocide
11 February 2012 2:02pm | Tikkun
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine (the largest circulation progressive Jewish magazine in the world), called upon the world community to intervene and stop the genocide being waged by the Assad government against the people of Syria. More >>
Buffett Says "Right to Be Fearful" of "Paper Money"
11 February 2012 1:57pm | GoldCore
Buffett Says "Right to Be Fearful" of "Paper Money" - Favours Stocks over Cash, Bonds and Gold More >>
Defamation Protection for Regime Unwelcome
11 February 2012 1:53pm | Pacific Media Watch
http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/fiji-defamation-protections-regime-unwelcome-says-advocacy-group-7817 More >>
Latest Journal of Pacific Studies looks at peace-building
11 February 2012 1:49pm | Pacific Media Watch
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A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
11 February 2012 1:21pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to strongly protest against the search and seizure of seven places including the offices of several rights group and of houses belonging to their staff by National Intelligence Service (NIS) on February ... More >>
Security success in Uruzgan Province
11 February 2012 1:10pm | Australian Defence Force
Security success in Uruzgan Province During the past two months the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), particularly the Afghan National Army (ANA), mentored by Australia’s Mentoring Task Force – Three, has uncovered significant insurgent ... More >>
Defence strengthens flood relief effort
10 February 2012 7:29pm | Australian Defence Force
Defence strengthens flood relief effort in south Queensland An Australian Defence Force (ADF) Emergency Support Force (ESF) has commenced operations in Roma, Mitchell and St George to assist in the flood clean up and recovery effort. Defence issued ... More >>
Russia: Anti-LGBT Legislation
10 February 2012 5:41pm | US State Department
QUESTION : What is the State Department’s response to reports stating the St. Petersburg city authorities have placed a ban on the reading, discussion or dissemination of anything relating to LGBT issues? More >>
Unwarranted State and Media Protection Decree Discriminates
10 February 2012 5:38pm | Citizens Constitutional Forum
The Citizens’ Constitutional Forum (CCF) notes that to garner confidence in the current regime, it must desist from ruling by decrees especially if they are determined and drafted without any real due process involving the views of the people and more ... More >>
Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations Announces Dates
10 February 2012 5:31pm | US State Department
The Industry Advisory Panel (IAP) will hold its 2012 meetings on Tuesday, April 17 and Tuesday, October 30 in the Loy Henderson Conference Room of the U.S. Department of State, located at 2201 C Street, N.W. (entrance on 23rd Street) Washington, D.C. ... More >>
Burma’s New Media Law May Fail to Ensure Press Freedom
10 February 2012 5:28pm | International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Burma Media Association (BMA) in its concerns that Burma’s proposed new media law may not guarantee freedom of media as the government promised. The new media law, drafted by the Ministry of ... More >>
New Pacific Chief Trade Adviser Signs
10 February 2012 5:25pm | Office of the Chief Trade Adviser
Dr Edwini Kessie, a Geneva-based international trade law expert has signed to be the new Chief Trade Adviser (CTA) for the Pacific Island Countries and the head of the Port Vila-based Office of the Chief Trade Adviser (OCTA). The decision to appoint ... More >>
Tunisia: US Commits Support to the Community of Democracies
10 February 2012 5:21pm | US State Department
Officials from the United States and more than twenty countries will convene in Tunis, Tunisia on February 9-10 for the inaugural meeting of the Community of Democracies Tunisia Task Force. The United States will be providing $5 million to support priorities ... More >>
Russia Behind Bulgarian Anti-Fracking Protests?
10 February 2012 5:18pm | Oilprice.com
Pity the poor Eastern Europeans. Fifty years under the domination of their massive Soviet eastern neighbor then the collapse of Communism there two decades ago offered undreamed of opportunities to join both the European Union and NATO. More >>
Caution Advised Over Fiji’s New Decree
10 February 2012 5:16pm | International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF) in advising caution regarding the latest media-related decree issued by Fiji’s authorities. The new state proceedings decree, signed off by Fiji's President Ratu ... More >>
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty The Focus Of Ban’s Visit To Austrian
10 February 2012 5:14pm | UN News
New York, Feb 9 2012 1:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Austria next week for a three-day official visit focused on efforts to tackle the illegal drug trade in Afghanistan and the push for a global treaty banning nuclear tests. More >>
UN Wraps Up Year Of Forests - Social And Economic Value
10 February 2012 5:12pm | UN News
New York, Feb 9 2012 1:10PM The United Nations will wrap up today its year-long campaign to raise awareness on the importance of forests and the people who depend on them with a series of events that spotlight their role and impact in socio-economic activities. More >>
Libya: UN Welcomes Adoption Of Electoral Laws
10 February 2012 5:09pm | UN News
New York, Feb 9 2012 1:10PM The United Nations political mission in Libya today welcomed the North African country’s adoption of new electoral laws, calling the move “an important step in Libya’s transition to democracy.” More >>
Wave Of Prison Deaths In South America Sparks Alarm From UN
10 February 2012 5:08pm | UN News
New York, Feb 9 2012 2:10PM A senior United Nations human rights official has voiced concern over a wave of violence inside prisons in South America, where at least eight inmates have been killed in the past two weeks in four separate countries. More >>
Singapore: Time to Move On and Focus on National Issues
10 February 2012 5:06pm | Think Centre
10 February 2012, Singapore - Think Centre (TC), Singapore's oldest political association, calls on fellow Singaporeans to re-focus on national issues in the face of recent exposes of alleged misdemeanours by public figures. Over the last three weeks, Singaporeans ... More >>
Rap Artist 50 Cent Visits Horn Of Africa With UN Food Relief
10 February 2012 4:58pm | UN News
The rap star Curtis Jackson, known as 50 Cent, was able to see first-hand the food crisis in the Horn of Africa region during a field visit to Somalia and Kenya this week that was hosted by the United Nations food relief agency. Mr. Jackson, who last ... More >>
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