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Waisake Kativerata has been appointed the new Head Coach and Coaching Director of the Fiji Bati. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) and Fiji National Rugby League Chairman Aporosa Lutunauga made the announcement of the new coach in a media conference in Suva today. Kaiverata takes over from Josaia Rabele, who guided Fiji at last year’s Rugby League World Cup in England. “Wise...

The UN Human Rights Office has launched Pacific Climate Tales – an animated video series where migrant workers from the Pacific region share their personal stories about climate change, leaving home and how it affects their human rights. As part of our yearlong count-down to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 75 anniversary on 10 December and the #StandUp4Migrants campaign,...

Pacific leaders are urging UN member states to finalise a high seas treaty in the next two weeks to protect global marine biodiversity. Negotiators from around the world convened for the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Conference on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ) from Monday at the UN headquarters in New York - with the meeting running until 03 March. Fiji's...

The chairmanship of the Pacific Islands Forum will be passed from Fiji to the Cook Islands at the Special Leaders Retreat in Nadi this week. Outgoing Chair Sitiveni Rabuka took up the role when he was elected as Prime Minister in December last year but will hand over that role to his Cook Islands counterpart, Mark Brown. “My tenure as chair...

Australian foreign minister Penny Wong has announced Australia will rapidly scale up security and development cooperation with the sprawling Pacific Island nation of Kiribati as the federal government tries to ensure China doesn't gain a strategic foothold in the country. The foreign minister met Kiribati's President Taneti Maamau Tuesday in the capital Tarawa on her first visit since Labor won...

Fiji and Papua New Guinea have reasserted their commitment to regional solidarity and mutual cooperation on issues of interest to both nations. This was conveyed Tuesday at a meeting held between the Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sitiveni Rabuka and the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape. Speaking at a press conference, Prime Minister Rabuka thanked Prime...

Any human rights issues in West Papua must not be overshadowed by the fact that the country remains under the sovereignty of Indonesia. These were the sentiments expressed by Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape at a news conference in Suva Tuesday. “West Papua has been an issue that has resurfaced many times in the...

Pacific delegates have joined the rest of the international community at what is hoped to be the finale in the negotiations of the marine biological diversity treaty at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA. Forum Secretary General and Pacific Ocean Commissioner Henry Puna is pleading with all the nations of the world to bring the high seas treaty canoe...

By Caleb Jarvis, Trade and Investment Commissioner, PTI Australia From media to development strategies, industry transformations to education, we are seeing unequivocally that the future is digital. In this instance, the Pacific Islands is no exception. In recent years the oceanic stage has been set for digital prosperity. Connectivity and technology gains have been rolled-out and adopted at accelerated rates,...

The UN Human Rights Office has launched Pacific Climate Tales – an animated video series where migrant workers from the Pacific region share their personal stories about climate change, leaving home and how it affects their human rights. As part of our yearlong count-down to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 75 anniversary on December 10 and the #StandUp4Migrants campaign,...