Grants available for government, civil society and other gender equality projects
The Pacific Community (SPC) is offering grants for gender equality initiatives that support Pacific women and girls, in all their diversity, to be safe...
Our stories – Climate-forced Displacement and Relocation – Climate Tok Report
The disconnect between how the development sector addresses climate change-related issues like climate-forced displacement and relocation in island communities requires urgent attention.
A convening of...
After decades putting the brakes on global action, does Australia deserve to host UN...
Analysis by Wesley Morgan is a research fellow at Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University
As the COP27 climate talks got underway in Egypt...
How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels
In Fiji, the climate crisis means dozens of villages could soon be underwater. Relocating so many communities is an epic undertaking. But now there...
‘End youth tokenism’ – Commonwealth young people tell COP27 leaders to recognise them as...
Representatives for the more than a billion under-30s in the Commonwealth have called on leaders at the start of COP27 in Egypt to end...
Why a chain of tiny Pacific islands wants an international court opinion on responsibility...
Emily Wilkinson, Co-director, Caribbean Resilience and Recovery Knowledge Network, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Matt Bishop, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University...
China and Australia must not turn Solomon Islands into a gun state again
By Dorothy Wickham
My country once lived in fear of the gun. Thousands of weapons, many stolen from police armouries, fuelled the years of violence...
Small island, big ocean: Niue makes its entire EEZ a marine park
By Monica Evans
When Niueans are babies, their parents traditionally take them down to the seashore and throw them in the water so they...
WTO fisheries agreement will not help poverty alleviation in least developed countries
In June this year, the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation passed an interim agreement that aimed to curb harmful fish subsidies...
Statement by Pacific Elders’ Voice, UNFCCC COP27, Sharm El Sheikh, Republic of Egyps
We, a group of experienced Pacific Island leaders, speak as one in calling for urgent action at the climate change Conference of Parties (COP27)...
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Tuvalu backs UN methane push, Calls for fossil fuel phase-out
Tuvalu has endorsed the United Nations Secretary-General's call for global methane action, calling for an urgent phase-out of fossil fuels and pledging to increase...
South Pacific Group Ministers celebrate progress and renew commitment to regional uni
Ministers from the South Pacific Group (SPG) gathered today in Wellington to reflect on the Group's achievements and collective successes. Convening in the margins...