Pacific Elders Voice statement on Pacific Security
In response to the recent visit to the Pacific by U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the release of the Indo-Pacific Strategy of...
Fisheries and climate change: A Pacific perspective
By Fatu Tauafiafi
As resource owners of the world’s largest and most valuable tuna fisheries, Pacific members zoomed into the 18th annual Western Central Pacific...
Pacific Islands Forum SG Henry Puna remarks on International Women’s Day 2022
Gender equality is the single most important pathway to a sustainable Blue Pacific tomorrow. Our Forum Leaders have emphasized this over the years and...
On International Women’s Day 2022: A message from SPREP
By Tagaloa Cooper-Halo, Acting Director General and Director Climate Change Resilience
Fakalofa lahi atu, Kia orana, Ran Annim, Lenwo, Kaselehlie, Mogethin, Ni Sa Bula...
Women fish too: invisible women in tuna industries
By Kate Barclay, University of Technology Sydney in Sydney
The assumption that the tuna fishing industry is a man’s world is not only misleading, but...
No poverty reduction in Fiji over the last six years
Written by Neelesh Gound
The Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBS) released its preliminary report on the 2019-2020 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) on 08...
Pacific Wayfinder: Merging science with traditional knowledge to combat climate change
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report emphasises that the Pacific needs both modern scientific and traditional knowledge to build resilience to climate...
“Our ocean is not a nuclear dumpster” – USP students call for a nuclear...
By Nic Maclellan
Hundreds of students at the University of the South Pacific in Suva rallied to remember nuclear survivors around the region on...
While Australia fights for coal, the Pacific fights for its survival
Opinion by Anote Tong
We in the Pacific have been raising the alarm about the impacts of climate change for decades, but the latest...
As extreme weather ravages the Pacific, there is much to do and no time...
By Mark Howden and Ofa Ma’asi-Kaisamy
In the past decade the two most intense cyclones recorded to date in the southern hemisphere ripped through...
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China steps up efforts to win Palau but President Whipps says he won’t cave...
Beijing has been dangling lures in a bid to convince Palau to sever ties with Taiwan and switch to China, President Surangel Whipps Jr...
Solomon Islands election yields no majority for pro-China party
Neither advocates nor opponents of a security pact with Beijing won a majority in the Solomon Islands' parliamentary elections, results announced Wednesday for the...
UN chief calls for all hands on deck at Climate Promise 2025 launch
Top UN officials launched a fresh global campaign to tackle the climate emergency on Tuesday, with social media influencers, Indigenous leaders and corporate giants...