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120,000 voters in Samoa go to the polls today
In a fine sun shiny Samoan day, 120,000 voters go to the polls today to elect a new government following months of intensive and...
COVID-19 equitable vaccine scheme reaches more than 100 countries and economies
More than 100 countries and economies have now received COVID-19 vaccines through the UN-partnered equitable coronavirus-busting scheme, COVAX.
The first delivery of lifesaving jabs arrived...
Samoa election 2021
By Nanai Anae Dr. Iati Iati
STANDFIRST
Can you remember the last time Samoa had a formidable political opposition? It has been a while, and...
Community awareness and consultation on the Freedom of Speech and Opinion
The Office of the Ombudsman also the National Human Rights Institution of Samoa in collaboration with the Samoa Police and Prisons Service and the...
Mapping digital rights in MENA: towards a safer online environment
This statement was originally published on 7amleh.org on 10 March 2021.
The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media in cooperation with Innovation for...
The journalists fighting election disinformation
This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 11 March 2021.
By Rebecca Redelmeier/CPJ Audience Engagement Associate
With multiple federal investigations underway into the January...
Pacific Way(s) and regionalism
by Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
The tumultuous dispute over the selection of the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), which led to Micronesian countries deciding...
Oceania sport sector set to benefit from milestone ONOC-SPC partnership
A partnership agreement signed today between the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) and the Pacific Community (SPC) has set the stage for the Pacific’s...
The EU and the Pacific: global tax governance
Written by Sujiro Seam
The European Union (EU) “tax list” is the primary instrument of a more ambitious agenda to promote the principles of tax...
New forest portal to shine a light on PNG’s logging industry
For more than twenty-five years, deep in the remote and inaccessible tropical forests of Papua New Guinea, a huge industrial complex has been operating;...
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Samoan Ambassador demands urgent Climate finance after devastating Category 5 Hurricane in Caribbean
The people of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean are in mourning after witnessing the devastation caused by Category 5 Hurricane Beryl.
This...
United States congratulates Tuvalu for acceding to the biological weapons convention
The United States has congratulated Tuvalu, which deposited its instrument of accession to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) with the United States on 28...
New Caledonia activist says he is ‘political prisoner’ in France
An indigenous Kanak pro-independence activist from the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia said Monday that he considered himself a “political prisoner” as authorities...