Standing in Solidarity with the Pacific: “If we save the Pacific, we will save...
Op-Ed by Dirk Wagener, UN Resident Coordinator for Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu
When United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres recently visited the...
The Pacific Islands News Association at 50: part 2
A perspective on the history and future of the Pacific Islands News Association from incoming President Kalafi Moala
The Pacific Islands Media Freedom (PIMF) Index...
In advance of historic Commonwealth Meeting in Samoa, experts to lay out role of...
Incorporating new scientific data, experts issued statements urging action on the global goal to protect 30 percent of the ocean by 2030 at the...
Overseas Minister buffeted by New Caledonia crisis
By Nic Maclellan, in Noumea, New Caledonia
France’s newly appointed Overseas Minister François-Noël Buffet has travelled to New Caledonia for a four-day visit, pledging that...
CBD COP16 a critical step to manage and preserve our rich island and marine...
Opinion by Sefanaia Nawadra
The adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) in Montréal Canada in 2022, to guide global action on nature through to...
Mining’s Silent Wave: The hidden impact on marine resources and coastal communities
By Ben Bilua
While the demand for minerals continue to rise globally, social and environment pressure continues to threaten the coexistence of Indigenous people and...
The Pacific Islands News Association at 50: part I
A perspective on the history and future of the Pacific Islands News Association from incoming President Kalafi Moala.
The common feeling among participants at the...
Despite health gains, urgent action needed to meet health-related Sustainable Development Goals in the...
According to a new report released today, countries in the World Health Organisation (WHO) Western Pacific region experienced the smallest decline in life expectancy...
Reflections on Pacific regionalism
By Sione Tekiteki
The Pacific Islands Forum and its secretariat is a complex bureaucracy that will take any individual at least a year to understand....
CHOGM 2024 Samoa to accelerate progress across the Commonwealth
More than 3,000 delegates and leaders from 56 Commonwealth countries, representing 2.7 billion people, will gather in Apia, Samoa, next week for the bi-annual...
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‘Test of regionalism’: Pacific church group calls for review of Israel’s PIF role
The region's premier ecumenical organisation is calling for Israel's new partnership with the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to be reviewed.
The Pacific Conference of Churches...
‘Cut the umbilical cord’: Bougainville’s bid to break away from Papua New Guinea faces...
For decades, the distant island of Bougainville has fought for secession from Papua New Guinea, for a future as an independent nation of its...
Fiji passport ranks 97th globally, opens 78 destinations
Fijian passport holders can access 78 overseas destinations without obtaining a traditional visa in advance, but Fiji ranks 97th globally and 11th among 14...