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Small island countries press for guarantees as rising sea levels risk leaving their citizens stateless
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Small island nations would rather fight than...
Pacific Transnational Leaders Panel reflects on Regionalism and Leadership
The ‘Pacific Transnational Leaders Panel’ event brought together distinguished figures in the Pacific region to discuss the highlights and challenges of Pacific regionalism. Held...
Palau under CCP pressure to switch recognition from Taiwan to China
The President of Palau, Surangel Whipps Jr, speaks to The Sunday Guardian on what his Pacific Island Country is facing.
By Cleo Paskal
The United States...
Explainer: Water to be released into the ocean from Fukushima nuclear power station
Within a few months, Japan is expected to release treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
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The climate crisis is this century’s biggest threat. We need a global finance pact...
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The science is clear. The climate crisis is the biggest single threat we face as a...
The Fierce Urgency of Now
By the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland
In 1967, American civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King said in a speech, "we are now faced...
New toolkit launched for Pacific Journalists Reporting on Corruption
Contributing to this week’s Marshall Islands Summit on Democracy: Public Engagement, Communications and the Media, the Pacific Anti-Corruption Journalists Network (PACJN) has launched a...
Marine biodiversity gets a lifeline with high seas treaty
The United Nations Monday formally adopted a historic treaty designed to protect life in the high seas, which is increasingly under threat from pollution,...
Move to pardon figurehead of Fiji’s 2000 coup could raise political temperature
By Shailendra Bahadur Singh
A possible pardon for the figurehead of Fiji’s violent 2000 coup has the potential to put the Pacific island country’s reformist...
Beyond borders: Why new ‘high seas’ treaty is critical for the world
The UN’s 193 Member States adopted a landmark legally binding marine biodiversity agreement on Monday following nearly two decades of fierce negotiations over forging...
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PINA Statement for World Press Freedom Day 2026
By President, Kalafi Moala
On this World Press Freedom Day, we gather under a powerful and timely theme: “Shaping a Future at Peace: Promoting...
Iran crisis shows fossil fuels-based energy system ‘is inherently volatile and unstable’
Senior UN climate leaders are getting behind countries mobilising this week for a transition away from fossil fuels at a groundbreaking event in Colombia.
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Fiji Parliament ratified PRF in uninanimous vote, pushes debt free-climate funding
Fiji’s Parliament has unanimously approved the ratification of the agreement to establish the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) Wednesday, marking a significant step toward strengthening...