Interview with Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon Kofe
With Tuvalu Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Kofe, speaking in Q and A mode in the margins of this week’s Pacific conference on statehood and...
Vanuatu commended for spearheading UN resolution on climate justice
The Pacific Islands Forum has expressed the gratitude of member states to the Government of Vanuatu for its commendable and wide-ranging efforts that’s resulted...
Climate change: Push for decision at world’s top court
The concerns of young people in the Pacific about climate change are set to be heard at the world’s top court.
Four years after students...
‘We are very vulnerable’: cyclone-hit Vanuatu pins climate hopes on UN vote
Last month, twin cyclones tore through Port Vila, the capital of the Pacific nation of Vanuatu.
The category-four storms left corrugated iron roofs crumpled like...
Japanese environment economist says ALPS-treated Fukushima radioactive wastewater still contains radionuclides, urging Tokyo to...
While stressing that the so-called treated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant still contains radionuclides that are not able to be removed, a...
AUKUS is ‘going against’ Pacific nuclear free treaty – Forum chair
Cook Islands Prime Minister and Forum Chair, Mark Brown has joined a growing list of Pacific leaders to object to the US$250 billion nuclear...
Threats of sea-level rise and erosion of statehood very real: Tuvalu Foreign Minister Kofe
Legal experts from around the region are gathered in Fiji for the regional conference on Statehood, Protection of Persons affected by sea level rise.
The...
U.S Navy and Coast Guard begin Oceania maritime security initiative patrol
The U.S Navy and U.S Coast Guard have begun their joint patrol in the Western Pacific under the Oceania Maritime Security Initiative to reduce...
Row erupts over deep-sea mining as world races to finalise vital regulations
Michael Lodge, a British lawyer and the head of the UN-affiliated body responsible for governing mining in the high seas, has been criticised by...
Indigenous Peoples from 34 nations call for total ban on deep sea mining
Indigenous activists have made clear that they don’t give their consent to deep sea mining.
In a petition presented Monday to the International Seabed Authority...
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Climate crisis driving surge in gender-based violence, UN report finds
Without urgent action, climate change could be linked to one in every ten cases of intimate partner violence by the end of the century.
That...
Proposed ‘two-sexes’ law ignites debate on Christian values and rights in Vanuatu
Vanuatu’s Constitution will soon be amended to recognise only two sexes—male and female—at birth.
However, the question remains as to how this will impact the...
Singapore, Fiji lean on close ties to weather ‘increasingly turbulent’ world
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka have reaffirmed their commitment to deepen ties that have allowed their nations to...