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Explainer: The Diplomatic Row Between New Zealand And The Cook Islands

Monday, 10 February 2025, 8:56 pm | RNZ

Diplomatic tension between the Cook Islands and New Zealand is growing. Here's what it's about, what China has to do with it, and why it matters. More >>

Opposition 'Concerned' By Diplomatic Row Between New Zealand Government And The Cook Islands

Monday, 10 February 2025, 8:54 pm | RNZ

The Cook Islands PM is in Beijing to sign an agreement with China - but the government says he failed to consult with NZ on the matter, as is required. More >>

First Person: Bodies Of Children In Haiti Have Turned Into ‘Battlegrounds’

Monday, 10 February 2025, 8:37 pm | UN News

Armed groups in Haiti are inflicting “unimaginable horrors” on children, turning their “bodies into battlegrounds”, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). More >>

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Global Forum Suggests Fresh Ideas For 21st Century UN Peacekeeping

Monday, 10 February 2025, 8:35 pm | UN News

UN peacekeeping must be fit for purpose as the nature of conflict evolves in the 21st century along with new weapons technology, more than 60 nations heard this week at a global forum on the future of peace operations, taking place in Indonesia. More >>

Sudan: Civilian Death Toll Triples In One Week Amid Escalating Hostilities

Monday, 10 February 2025, 8:33 pm | UN News

The civilian death toll in Sudan has surged dramatically, with at least 275 people killed between 31 January and 5 February, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, reported on Friday. More >>

DR Congo Crisis: Thousands Flee Clashes In South Kivu

Monday, 10 February 2025, 8:31 pm | UN News

Continued clashes in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are triggering mass displacement and causing civilian casualties, UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA said on Friday. More >>

After Years Of Conflict, Timor-Leste Turns Peacemaker

Monday, 10 February 2025, 8:30 pm | UN News

During the turbulent early years of Timor-Leste’s independence, the UN was a constant presence, helping maintain peace & stability. 24 years on, the country has made the successful transition from a host nation for UN peacekeeping operations, to one that ... More >>

Inclusive Access To Quality Education - A Priority For The Pacific

Monday, 10 February 2025, 8:27 pm | PacREF

The 15 Pacific Island Countries participating in the Paiaudaud include Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu and ... More >>

Tribute To The Freedom Fighter-Sam Nujoma Of Namibia

Monday, 10 February 2025, 8:22 pm | The New African Charter International NACI

Nujoma is a model for the wider Africa and his soul should be seen as a strength to provide Nandi Ndaitwa, Duma Boko, Haikande Hichilema, John Dramani Mahama and Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye the strong heart and mind set to bail African out of ... More >>

NACI Condemns Conspiracy To Liquidate The Population Of Gaza And Eastern Democratic Republic Of Congo

Monday, 10 February 2025, 7:52 pm | The New African Charter International NACI

The US President should be reminded that Gaza is not a housing project. NACI urges the civilised international community to not allow any cheap pawn, or agents of imperialism and, or rogue states to raise their ugly head and go scot free with their dirty agenda ... More >>

Report: New Zealand's Climate Commitments Fail To Address Health Impacts

Monday, 10 February 2025, 6:40 pm | Global Climate and Health Alliance

New Zealand’s NDC shows limited mitigation ambition, and neglects health considerations New Zealand's future NDCs should integrate measurable health targets and financing for health-related measures. More >>

CAPHRA Responds To Lancet Study And WHO Concerns With Call For Evidence-Based Tobacco Harm Reduction

Monday, 10 February 2025, 5:50 pm | CAPHRA

"This Lancet study adds to the growing body of evidence that vaping offers a substantial harm reduction potential for smokers," said Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of CAPHRA. More >>

US Aid Funding Cuts Put HIV Prevention At Risk, Warns UNAIDS

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 10:20 pm | UN News

The US pause in foreign assistance funding has created “confusion” in the vital work of community HIV prevention, despite a waiver issued for HIV/AIDS programmes, the UN agency to combat the still deadly disease said on Friday. More >>

Palestinians’ Rights Matter, Says UNRWA Chief

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 10:13 pm | UN News

The head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA underscored its commitment to assist a population whose rights “continue to be violated”. More >>

Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Seif Magango On Rising Civilian Death Toll In Sudan

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 10:11 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

The latest figures are three times the already high number of civilian casualties recorded the previous week. From 24 to 30 January, our Office documented at least 89 civilians killed in similar circumstances, predominantly in North Darfur and Khartoum ... More >>

UN Expert Welcomes African Court Ruling Against Tanzania For Failing To Protect Persons With Albinism

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 10:07 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

In a decision, the African Court found that Tanzania violated the right to life protected under Article 4 of the African Charter. More >>

Bosnia & Herzegovina: Bill On Registering NGOs Will Increase Govt Control Over Civil Society Operations, Say UN Experts

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 10:06 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

According to the experts, the law would limit the independence and autonomy of civil society organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, contrary to the right of associations to organise their activities and formulate their programmes without undue government ... More >>

Human Rights Situation In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 10:03 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

The risk of violence escalating throughout the sub-region has never been higher. All those with influence over the parties involved, be they States or non-state actors, must redouble their efforts to avert a conflagration and to support peace processes. More >>

UN CRC Publishes Findings On Ecuador, Eritrea, Gambia, Honduras, Peru, Saint Kitts And Nevis, & Slovakia

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 10:00 pm | UN Treaty Bodies

The findings contain the Committee’s main concerns and recommendations on implementing the Child Rights Convention, as well as positive aspects. More >>

UN Experts Call For Urgent Humanitarian Relief And A Political Solution To Protect Civilians In DRC

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 9:58 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

Several displacement sites have been partially or completely emptied as families fled conflict, while others have been forcibly closed by the M23 in flagrant violation of IDPs’ right to safe, voluntary, and dignified solutions. More >>

Cook Islands PM Flying To China Without Consulting NZ - Government

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 6:59 pm | RNZ

The New Zealand government says the Cook Islands has failed to properly consult it on proposed agreements its Prime Minister Mark Brown will be signing in China this week - and Brown has now left for China. More >>

Solomon Islands: Road Infrastructure Remain Top Priority For Small Malaita Constituency

Saturday, 8 February 2025, 10:03 pm | Solomon Islands MRD

CDO Honimae said that for this year the constituency will be focussing on two road segments only which include, the Paeni-Waloa’a-Roone road and the Afio-Matangasi road. More >>

Crowds Flock To Australian Wooden Boat Festival

Saturday, 8 February 2025, 10:01 pm | Australian Wooden Boat Festival

Saturday’s festivalgoers were treated to an array of captivating demonstrations and on-water activities. More >>

The Central Role Of Collaboration And Trust In Human Societies

Saturday, 8 February 2025, 9:58 pm | Independent Media Institute

The concept of heterarchy has joined a developing paradigm shift in the social sciences. More >>

Sanctioning Networks Channeling Revenue To Iran’s Military

Saturday, 8 February 2025, 9:50 pm | U.S. Department of State

In addition, the United States is targeting shadow fleet vessels and management companies that transported Iranian oil, aiding Iran’s ability to promote destabilizing activities in the region. More >>

Samoan Communities Affected By Manawanui Disaster Receive $30,000 Donation From China

Saturday, 8 February 2025, 7:26 pm | RNZ

The Chinese embassy in Apia made an initial donation amid Manawanui compensation talks, and a spokesperson for Safata district says "this is only the beginning" with "other projects" under discussion. More >>

Fiji's Daily Pornographic Traffic Raises Alarm Among Authorities

Saturday, 8 February 2025, 7:23 pm | RNZ

Fijians consume up to 15 terabytes of pornographic content daily - the same amount of data usage could stream HD movies continuously for 24 years or download approximately 220 million e-books. More >>

Mark Brown On China Deal: 'No Need For New Zealand To Sit In The Room With Us'

Friday, 7 February 2025, 9:12 pm | RNZ

The Cook Islands prime minister says New Zealand is asking for too much oversight over its deal with Beijing which is expected to be signed next week. More >>

New Zealand National Day

Friday, 7 February 2025, 7:28 pm | U.S. Department of State

We will continue to support New Zealand’s leadership in the Indo-Pacific region and collaborate on initiatives that promote economic prosperity, innovation, and security. More >>

UN Climate Chief: Clean Energy Shift Is Now Unstoppable; Finance Roadmap, Adaptation, Just Transition Are Key

Friday, 7 February 2025, 7:26 pm | UNFCCC

Indeed, without UN-convened global climate cooperation – with its origins here in Brazil in 1992 – we would be headed towards up to 5 degrees Celsius of global heating – a death sentence for humanity as we know it. More >>

FWRM Submission On Governance Laws 2025

Friday, 7 February 2025, 7:23 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

07/02/2025 Introduction The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) is a feminist organization committed to removing all forms of discrimination against women and girls through advocacy, research and legislative reform. FWRM acknowledges the importance ... More >>

Parade Of Sail Opens Wooden Boat Festival To Pacific

Friday, 7 February 2025, 7:20 pm | Australian Wooden Boat Festival

Parade of Sail | Credit: Doug Thost / AWBF Friday 7 February 2025, Hobart, Tasmania Hobart’s waterfront sparkled with energy today as the 2025 Australian Wooden Boat Festival officially opened with the breathtaking Parade of Sail . Crowds of spectators ... More >>

Iraq: How The World Helped Mosul Rise From The Rubble Of War

Friday, 7 February 2025, 12:02 pm | UN News

Terrorist fighters with ISIL/Da’esh invaded Iraq’s second city of Mosul in 2014, destroying centuries-old landmarks in a bid to erase its history and impose a bleak and repressive future on the nearly two million people who lived there. More >>

‘She Had A Syringe, Razor Blade, And Bandages’: Surviving Genital Mutilation

Friday, 7 February 2025, 11:55 am | UN News

Some 230 million girls in more than 90 countries – predominantly in Africa and Asia – have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) and can suffer lifelong physical, emotional and psychological scars, an issue that the UN’s sexual and reproductive More >>

Guterres Appeals For Mediation To End Crisis In Eastern DR Congo

Friday, 7 February 2025, 11:31 am | UN News

Now is the time to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday in a briefing to journalists in New York. More >>

Toxic Air Threatens Children’s Lives Across East Asia And The Pacific, UNICEF Warns

Friday, 7 February 2025, 11:17 am | UN News

More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned in a new analysis released on Thursday, calling for urgent action to tackle the crisis. More >>

It’s Official: January Was The Warmest On Record

Friday, 7 February 2025, 11:11 am | UN News

The world has just experienced the hottest January ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday, citing data crunched by UN partner the Copernicus Climate Service More >>

Gaza: UN Health Agency Urges Rapid Scale-Up Of Medevacs As Thousands Remain In Critical Condition

Friday, 7 February 2025, 11:09 am | UN News

More than 12,000 critically ill and injured patients, including at least 5,000 children, urgently need to be evacuated from Gaza, amid the crumbling health system, the UN World Health Organization (WHO)’s top official in the region said on Thursday. More >>

Sudan: Top Aid Official Warns Against Escalating Violence In Two States

Friday, 7 February 2025, 10:18 am | UN News

South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan are on the brink of catastrophe as violence continues to escalate at an alarming rate, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on Thursday in a statement. More >>

‘Step Up The Pace’ And End Female Genital Mutilation, UN Says

Friday, 7 February 2025, 9:26 am | UN News

As the world marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation on Thursday, the United Nations is warning that without urgent action, a staggering 27 million more girls could undergo the procedure by 2030. More >>

“Inflicting Harm And Denying Care” In The West Bank: MSF Report On Escalation Of Attacks And Obstructions Of Healthcare

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 8:02 pm | MSF Australia

As the occupying power, Israel has legal obligations under international law to ensure access to healthcare and protect medical personnel. The healthcare system in the West Bank is under immense strain and forced into a state of perpetual emergency. More >>

Samoa Communities Affected By Manawanui Sinking Seek Support From China

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 7:57 pm | RNZ

The Chinese embassy in Apia met with villagers in Safata district to discuss how Beijing can assist them. More >>

Māori Academic Says Te Tiriti O Waitangi Relevant For Pasifika People

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 7:55 pm | RNZ

"There's a deep history between Māori and Pasifika people." More >>

'Do Not See Eye To Eye': NZ And Cook Islands At Odds Over Diplomatic Issues

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 7:53 pm | RNZ

"We can confirm that there are a number of issues on which New Zealand and the Cook Islands Government currently do not see eye to eye," the spokesperson for Deputy PM Winston Peters said. More >>

Solomon Islands Landowners Take Legal Action Over 2019 Oil Spill Disaster

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 7:31 pm | RNZ

The grounding of the cargo ship MV Solomon Trader in February 2019 resulted in 300 tonnes of oil leaking into the marine environment of Rennell Island. More >>

Balancing Climate Action And Food Security: The Pacific’s Call For A Equitable IMO Transition

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 2:43 pm | Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport

Introduction The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is advancing mid-term greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction measures as part of its 2023 Strategy, aiming to decarbonize the global shipping sector. However, for Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS), ... More >>

Tunisia: UN Experts Demand Immediate Release Of Former Truth Commission President Sihem Bensedrine

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 1:53 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

“Ms Bensedrine must be immediately and unconditionally released, and any charges against her must be dropped,” the experts said. More >>

Rethinking Rank And Privilege In Human Societies

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 1:36 pm | Human Bridges

By applying a concept widely used in mathematics and computer science, Carole Crumley has radically changed the way anthropologists see and study societies. More >>

Who Will Manage Global IP Protections?

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 11:50 am | Independent Media Institute

The growth of new technologies and geopolitical rivalries has complicated international IP protection. WIPO’s flexible, mediating approach may succeed where more rigid regulatory frameworks have struggled, but hurdles remain. More >>

Guterres Calls For Full Gaza Ceasefire, Rejecting ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 10:58 am | UN News

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to continue pushing for a full ceasefire and the release of all hostages in Gaza, and “to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing” in the enclave, in a speech in New York on Wednesday. More >>

Explainer: How Family Planning Saves Lives

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 9:40 am | UN News

Sakina Sani was married off when she was 12 years old amid conflict and food shortages in northern Nigeria. She became pregnant at 15 but miscarried and then had two children in rapid succession. More >>

Clock Ticking On South Sudan’s Transition, Security Council Hears

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 9:02 am | UN News

As South Sudan enters a so-called “extended transitional period” this month, the UN’s top envoy to the country has warned that the clock is ticking to accomplish the commitments under a key 2018 peace accord, ahead of a new deadline set for February ... More >>

Gaza: More Than A Million Receive Food Aid Since The Start Of The Ceasefire

Thursday, 6 February 2025, 8:58 am | UN News

Over one million people in the Gaza Strip have received food assistance since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect nearly three weeks ago, UN aid coordination office OCHA said in an update on Wednesday. More >>

Navigating Consensus On Maritime Decarbonization

Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 10:33 pm | Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport

On January 29, 2025, leading voices from the Pacific and beyond gathered for the webin "Negotiating Consensus: Breaking Down the 6PAC+ Submissions to ISWG-GHG 18." The event, moderated by John Taukave, featured key insights from Ambassador ... More >>

Why Have UN Peacekeepers Been In DR Congo For 65 Years?

Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 10:29 pm | UN News

Regional conflicts, murderous militias, the exploitation of natural resources, innocent civilians forced to flee their homes; these recent developments in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are just the latest in the central African nation’s troubled ... More >>

Stories From The UN Archive: Marian Anderson Broke Barriers With Music And Diplomacy

Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 10:27 pm | UN News

Marian Anderson, one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century, once performed in the UN's gilded General Assembly Hall in New York and also represented her country, the United States, as a delegate. More >>

Sudan: UN Chief Condemns Reported Executions As Starvation Risks Rise

Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 10:23 pm | UN News

The UN Secretary-General expressed deep alarm on Monday over reports of summary executions of civilians in the Sudanese city of Khartoum North, allegedly carried out by fighters and militias allied with the forces of the military Government. More >>

DR Congo: UN Call To Reopen Goma Airport ‘Lifeline’, As Crisis Deepens

Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 10:21 pm | UN News

The UN’s top humanitarian official in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday called for Goma airport to be urgently reopened, warning its continued closure is paralyzing relief operations. More >>

Deadly Attacks In Eastern Aleppo Highlight Syria’s Vulnerability

Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 10:19 pm | UN News

The United Nations on Tuesday condemned a deadly car bomb attack in the Syrian city of Manbij that killed 20 people, mostly women, and left many others critically injured. More >>

World News: ‘Ruthless Assault On Human Life’ In Sudan, Gaza Ceasefire Must Hold Says Relief Chief, World Cancer Day

Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 10:02 pm | UN News

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan has again urged warring parties to stop targeting civilians. More >>

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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