Marshall Islands calls for global accountability on Climate, Nuclear testing, and Human rights at UNGA

The President of Marshall Islands, Dr Hilda Heine delivered a powerful address at the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), urging world leaders to confront the most pressing issues of climate change, nuclear

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French Special Envoy urges Pacific preparation for UN Ocean conference

An international conference about ocean protection is incomplete without the voices of the Pacific region, says Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, Ambassador in charge of Poles and Maritime issues, Special Envoy of the French

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UN experts alarmed by situation of Kanak indigenous peoples in the non-self-governing territory of New Caledonia

The French Parliament adopted a bill on 14 May 2024 that dismantles one of the cornerstones of the Nouméa Accord by unfreezing the electoral body in New Caledonia, a non-self-governing territory under French

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UN Secretary-General Guterres to start Pacific swing

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is making his first visit to the Pacific in five years, taking in Samoa, New Zealand, Tonga and East Timor. The centrepiece of Guterres’ mission will be the

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Key UN report lends weight to Pacific plan for shipping emissions levy

Pacific governments say an official UN report shows their push for a levy on all shipping emissions – with the revenues redistributed to poorer nations – is fairer, cheaper and more effective than other green

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UN Rights chief ‘horrified’ at deadly PNG violence

Recent attacks on three villages in East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea, resulted in at least 26 deaths – including 16 children – an event that has left UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk

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UN shocked over Sepik atrocities

The United Nations Papua New Guinea office has strongly condemned the recent brutal rapes and killings of women and children in East Sepik’s Angoram. The UN, in a statement called on the local authorities to, without

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Fiji, PNG call for UN decolonisation mission to riot-struck New Caledonia

Fiji and Papua New Guinea have urged the UN’s decolonisation committee to expedite a visit to the French-controlled Pacific territory of New Caledonia following its pro-independence riots last month. Nine people have

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Opinion: Fiji’s enormous contribution to global peacekeeping

29 May – the International Day of UN Peacekeeping – is an important day on the United Nations’ annual event calendar.  It is a day that we mark with great pride, admiration, solemnity and honour for the men and

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At ICJ, lawyer for Palestine rips U.S. and Fiji for defending whatever offenses Israel commits

An attorney representing Palestine at the United Nations’ highest court called out the U.S. on Monday for routinely defending Israel’s violations of international law, including its brutal 57-year occupation

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First PNG woman for peacekeeping duties

Major Jacqueline Lilih has been posted to the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in Sudan, the first female PNG military officer to be deployed sent on such a tour of duty. Major Lilih departs for South Sudan today (21

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The long, hard road to climate finance

It’s the classic Catch-22.  Pacific and other small island developing states desperately need to access climate finance to survive the growing impacts of climate change. That much is well known. And the

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