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Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo highlighted the importance of data as his nation held its scheduled reporting session with UN CEDAW experts this morning in Fiji. Tuvalu ratified CEDAW in 1999 and will present its combined 5th and 6th periodic reports during this Pacific session. PM Teo acknowledged the common challenges Pacific nations face, particularly in data analysis for tracking...

The president of Palau has strongly backed an Australian bid to host a UN climate conference on behalf of the Pacific, arguing that it would boost regional solidarity and clean energy investment, and he would be “deeply disappointed” if the attempt were abandoned under the Coalition. Speaking in Sydney, Surangel Whipps Jr stressed he did not want to offer a...

ABG President Ishmael Toroama has thanked the Papua New Guinea Government for acknowledging Bougainville’s right to self-determination and emphasised that the outcome of the referendum must now be implemented in good faith. Speaking during the Second Joint Moderation Meeting in Port Moresby Tuesday President Toroama reaffirmed Bougainville’s firm commitment to independence and called on all parties, including the National Government...

Recent developments should draw attention to the moral costs of Rabuka’s decision to unreservedly embrace both Trump and Israel. By Merewalesi (Mere) Nailatikau In November 2020, Sitiveni Rabuka broke the diplomatic convention of avoiding partisan commentary on other countries’ politics by publicly declaring support for Donald Trump in the U.S elections. Then a member of the opposition with the Social Democratic...

Driven by Pacific leadership, the International Maritime Organisation is on the brink of making history with binding regulations to phase out fossil fuel use in global shipping. At a press conference hosted by the 6PAC+ alliance at the IMO in London, Ministers from Fiji, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu, as well as Marshall...

Leaders in Pacific nations are disappointed and trying to wrap their heads around the United States' tariffs. Fiji's Finance Minister said that its 32 percent tariff by the Trump Administration - the highest in the Pacific - is unfair, while the government spokesperson for Tokelau said he did not understand how the region threatens the American economy. President Donald Trump's charts...

The 83rd session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC83) reconvenes this week, and a global shipping levy remains on the table, Marshall Islands' special envoy for maritime decarbonisation says. Technical talks last week ended without consensus at the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) headquarters in London. A group of African, Caribbean, Latin American, and Pacific Island climate negotiators put forward a...

Papua New Guinea Parliament has been adjourned to 10am, 15 April 2025, to allow members to deliberate on a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister James Marape. Parliament reconvene this morning with the Speaker Job Pomat addressing all Members of Parliament on the Parliament procedures and process in dealing with its matters. There has been growing tensions and concerns regarding...

Members of about 200 Indigenous communities from Latin American and Pacific territories, including Aboriginal Australians, were taking part in an annual gathering of Indigenous peoples in Brasilia. Wearing brightly coloured traditional dress and body paint, they insisted that Indigenous leaders be given “as much of a voice and power” as world leaders at the UN COP30 conference to be held...

During the Pacific Technical Cooperation Session of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) had the honour of welcoming Tuvalu's Prime Minister Feleti Teo and a distinguished Tuvaluan delegation to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS). The delegation was in Suva for a bilateral meeting with Secretary General Baron...