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Creating Safe Spaces And Healing Hearts For Bright Futures

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 6:04 pm | UNICEF Pacific

Regional conference to address abuse, neglect and mental health issues that impact the wellbeing and learning outcomes of Pacific children More >>

MYANMAR: Children Living In The Open Face Additional Risk Of Heat Related Illnesses After Deadly Earthquake

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 5:59 pm | Save The Children

In Shan state, more than 13,000 people have been displaced, and in Central and Northwestern Myanmar, at least 10,000 buildings have collapsed or been severely damaged [1]. At least 2,700 people have died and thousands more injured. More >>

North Korea’s Expanding IT Threat: NZ And Other Nations In The Crosshairs

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 5:41 pm | Google Cloud Security

DPRK IT workers' activity across multiple countries now establishes them as a global threat. While the United States remains a key target, in recent months, these workers have encountered challenges securing and maintaining employment in the country. More >>

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Strengthening Maritime Safety In Kadavu: Boat Master Licence Training Empowers Coastal Communities

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 5:01 pm | UNDP

The training was delivered in two phases: the first held from 17 to 21 March at Nasegai, and the second from 24 to 28 March in Kavala, reaching participants from the tikina of Nabukelevu, Ravitaki, Sanima, Naceva, Tavuki, Yale, Nakasaleka, and Ono. More >>

Indian And New Zealand Navies Involved In $181m Drug Bust In Indian Ocean

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 3:32 pm | New Zealand Defence Force

The 121kg of heroin and 2386kg of hashish was discovered when marine commandos from Tarkash boarded a suspect dhow and conducted a thorough search. The drugs were found in various cargo holds and compartments. More >>

Accountability For Missing Persons Is ‘crucial’: UN Human Rights Chief

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 2:46 pm | UN News

2024 saw the highest increase in missing persons in at least two decades, with 56,559 new cases recorded, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. More >>

‘Attacks On Aid Workers Must End,’ Security Council Told

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 2:40 pm | UN News

Two senior UN officials appealed in the Security Council on Wednesday for an end to attacks against humanitarians and personnel working for the global organization. More >>

About 130 Children Born Daily In Gaza Amid Total Siege On Aid And Goods

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 1:54 pm | Save The Children

The number of miscarriages has reportedly surged with a 300% increase in Gaza during the war and pregnancy complications that would normally be treatable are now becoming life-threatening. More >>

Sudan: Sexual Violence Used As Weapon Of Terror Against Women And Girls

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 1:51 pm | UN News

Amid alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan, UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, is warning that over 12 million women and girls – and increasingly men and boys – are estimated to be at risk. More >>

World Is ‘failing’ People With Disabilities: UN Deputy Chief

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 1:47 pm | UN News

The “world is failing” people living with disabilities, UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed has told a major summit which aims to galvanize global efforts to ensure they are fully integrated into all parts of society. More >>

Myanmar Quake: UN Calls For Urgent Protection For Vulnerable Women And Girls

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 1:44 pm | UN News

Friday’s devastating earthquakes in Myanmar not only caused mass casualties and widespread destruction, they also deepened long-standing gender inequalities – leaving millions of women and girls at heightened risk, UN aid agencies warned on ... More >>

UN Condemns Killing Of 1,000 People In Gaza Since Ceasefire Collapse

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 1:40 pm | UN News

UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed grave concern on Wednesday over the human toll resulting from the intensified hostilities in Gaza. More >>

Gaza: Critical Medical Supplies Running Out One Month Into Deadly Siege Imposed By Israeli Authorities

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 10:41 am | Medecins Sans Frontieres

Shortage of medication is forcing MSF teams to dress wounds with no pain relief and ration essential medicines. Israeli authorities must end collective punishment of people in Gaza. More >>

Kiribati's First-of-its-Kind Data Protection Bill Passes First Reading

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 9:16 am | RNZ

Kiribati legislators unanimously passed a first-of-its-kind Data Protection Bill during its first reading in parliament on Tuesday. More >>

New 'State-of-the-Art' Passenger And Cargo Vessel Arrives In Tuvalu

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 9:04 am | RNZ

Minister for Transport, Energy, Communication, and Innovation Simon Kofe says the Manu Sina "will be a lifeline for people in the outer islands and boost our economy". More >>

New Zealand's Concerns Over Cook Islands' Shadow Fleet Revealed In OIA Request

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 8:48 pm | RNZ

New Zealand is concerned about Cook Islands' shipping registry following a link to Russia's shadow fleet and has offered experts to help improve its standard, according to MFAT. More >>

No Deal For New Caledonia, Talks To Continue Later This Month

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 8:45 pm | RNZ

French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls has returned to Paris Tuesday, without any deal as yet regarding the French Pacific territory's political future. More >>

Comment By UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk On The Killing Of Gaza Humanitarian Workers By Israeli Army

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 7:57 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Israel, as the occupying power, has the responsibility of protecting civilians and facilitating their access to basic lifesaving services, including healthcare. More >>

International Development Finance Requires Ambitious Reforms To Address Urgent Challenges – CPDE

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 6:58 pm | CPDE

“The Draft still falls short of being the transformative document it needs to be, and continues to reflect an inadequate ambition in the areas of time-bound commitments, actionable priorities, and substantive reforms,” the statement read. More >>

ICHRP Condemns Harassment And Threats Against Victims Of Duterte’s War On The Poor

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 4:19 pm | ICHRP

Among the false narratives promoted were claims of unfair treatment of Duterte during his arrest and targeted online attacks on victims' families, their legal counsels, and those supportive of the movement for justice. More >>

3.5 Million Displaced Following Myanmar Earthquake And Ongoing Internal Conflict

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 3:54 pm | World Vision

The earthquake has worsened an already severe humanitarian crisis in Myanmar where nearly half the population were living in poverty and more than 3.5 million people were internally displaced. More >>

One Third Of Population In Myanmar Requires Humanitarian Support, Following Devastating Earthquake

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 1:22 pm | World Vision New Zealand

World Vision aims to support 500,000 people, including 200,000 children, with a $5 million dollar response in the most affected areas and is urging the international community to mobilise resources for both immediate relief and long-term recovery ... More >>

Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Seif Magango On Pardoning Of Guinean Former President

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 12:13 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Former Guinea President Moussa Dadis Camara was convicted last year of crimes against humanity for the killing by security forces of over 150 people at an opposition rally at a stadium in the capital Conakry in September 2009. More >>

Gaza Aid Worker Killings: One Humanitarian Still Missing In Mass Grave

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 11:46 am | UN News

UN humanitarians and partners on Tuesday expressed deep shock at the killing of 15 colleagues on duty in southern Gaza by Israeli forces whose remains were recovered on Sunday from a shallow grave after a week-long rescue operation, noting that one ... More >>

Guterres Calls For Greater Equality And Inclusion As World Marks Autism Awareness Day

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 11:42 am | UN News

Although people with autism are making enormous contributions to societies across the globe, they still face significant challenges. More >>

UN-Backed Forum Seeks To Boost Resilience Of World’s Least Developed Countries

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 11:34 am | UN News

Policymakers, researchers, the private sector and other stakeholders are meeting in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, over the next three days to chart a path toward sustainable development and resilience for the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs). More >>

ChildFund Brings Clean Water To Thousands In Remote Solomon Islands

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 10:21 am | ChildFund New Zealand

"Aid budgets are being cut globally, and the impact of aid is being questioned. Organisations like ChildFund must demonstrate how we make a measurable difference with New Zealand’s aid," says Josie Pagani, CEO of ChildFund. More >>

Interview: Urgent Aid Needed As Survivors Of Myanmar Quake Struggle Amid Long-Running Crisis

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 10:05 am | UN News

As Myanmar reels from a devastating earthquake, the humanitarian situation is growing increasingly dire – entire communities have been reduced to rubble, infrastructure is shattered and tens of thousands remain in urgent need of aid. More >>

Tuvalu To Brazil: Our Success Is Your Success

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 9:57 am | 6PACplus

Done right, this levy can transform shipping from one of the world’s top-polluting sectors into a driver of climate action. It would empower countries like Tuvalu to green our domestic shipping industries, invest in clean energy, and strengthen its ... More >>

Pope Francis Approves Canonisation Of Papua New Guinea's First Saint

Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 8:29 pm | RNZ

The Pope cleared the path to canonization for Blessed Peter To Rot, a layman martyred for the faith in present-day Papua New Guinea, acording to Vatian News. More >>

Pacific News In Brief For 1 April

Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 8:27 pm | RNZ

A round-up of news from around the region, including an arrest for attempted murder after a hiking incident in Hawai'i. More >>

Supreme Court Orders A Recall Of Papua New Guinea Parliament

Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 8:21 pm | RNZ

The Court has ruled that parliament must be recalled on 8 April to debate a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister James Marape. More >>

World’s Top Butchers From 14 Nations Go Knife-to-Knife In Paris

Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 7:49 pm | World Butchers Challenge

The winning team will be awarded the coveted Friedr. Dick Golden Knife Trophy at a Gala dinner on Tuesday 1 April at the iconic Paradis Latin in Paris, France. More >>

Sanctioning Evasion Network Supporting Hizballah Finance Operations

Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 5:00 pm | US Department Of State

The United States is committed to supporting Lebanon by exposing and disrupting funding schemes for Hizballah’s terrorist activities and Iran’s destabilising influence in the region. Hizballah cannot be allowed to keep Lebanon captive. More >>

‘It Was Terrifying’ - Children Prepare To Spend Myanmar New Year Festival In Shelters Following Earthquake

Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 9:37 am | Save The Children

The earthquake on 28 March - the most powerful one in a century to hit Myanmar - caused extensive damage to infrastructure, as well as disrupting electricity and telecommunications services across the country. More >>

Myanmar Earthquake Tragedy ‘Compounds Already Dire Crisis’

Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 8:50 am | UN News

Entire communities in central Myanmar have been devastated and the full scale of the earthquake disaster “remains unclear”, the UN’s top humanitarian coordinator in the country said on Monday. More >>

Gaza: UN Relief Chief Demands ‘Answers And Justice’ Following Killings Of First Responders

Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 8:17 am | UN News

The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher on Monday called for “justice and answers” after Israeli forces killed eight Palestinian medics, six civil defence first responders and a UN staff member in an attack in southern Gaza. More >>

IOM & Japan Partner to Support Ukraine Refugees in Hungary

Monday, 31 March 2025, 10:39 pm | IOM UN Migration

To address immediate needs, IOM Hungary will support collective shelters with essential services, including social work, mental health support, and child development programs. More >>

Is Long-acting HIV Treatment As Good As Taking Daily Pills?

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:58 pm | CNS

As more scientific evidence and lessons from the roll-out of long-acting options come forth, we need to ensure that every person living with HIV is able to access the latest regimens of lifesaving antiretroviral therapy - and all choices of treatment ... More >>

Right To Safe Abortion Cannot Be Dislocated From Human Rights

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:55 pm | CNS

Even though the right to abortion is part of promises made by our governments by endorsing Beijing Declaration 1995 and legally-binding CEDAW and other agreements and declarations, and are critical to deliver on UN SDG-5 for gender equality and ... More >>

Investigating A Bronze Age Mystery: A Cemetery Full Of Princes, But No Palaces In Sight

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:54 pm | Independent Media Institute

The answer to why our species should change our ecological niche so radically is one of the most important in anthropological science. Going from foraging to deified kings in a few thousand years seems like a revolution, and indeed, it has been called ... More >>

Tariffs: Job Protectors Or Trade Killers?

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:51 pm | UN News

The word “tariff” has been catapulted to the headlines over the last few months, as major economies impose or threaten them on other nations. But tariffs are not just a blunt weapon to be used in geopolitical brinkmanship: they can, if used effectively, ... More >>

Extreme Weather Impacts Cascading ‘From The Andes To The Amazon’

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:48 pm | UN News

Extreme weather and climate impacts had a damaging toll on Latin America and the Caribbean last year, resulting in dying glaciers, record-breaking hurricanes, debilitating drought and deadly floods, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a ... More >>

47 Million Health Workers And Advocates Call For Cleaner Air To Curb Pollution Deaths

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:47 pm | UN News

Over 50 countries, cities, & organizations pledged new commitments to tackle air pollution, protect public health, and help halve its deadly impacts by 2040 – a goal backed by a petition from 47 million health professionals, patients & advocates ... More >>

Looking Beyond GDP To Reach The Sustainable Development Goals

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:45 pm | UN News

Countries should consider looking beyond Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the key measure of economic growth to achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN policymakers have suggested. More >>

Tens Of Millions Risk Starvation As Funding Cuts Deepen Crises In DR Congo: WHO, WFP

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:43 pm | UN News

Sharply declining aid could force tens of millions across the globe who rely on food aid into extreme hunger and starvation, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday. More >>

Haiti Reaches ‘Yet Another Crisis Point’ As Gangs Tighten Their Grip

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:41 pm | UN News

The UN human rights chief sounded the alarm on Friday over the rapidly deteriorating situation in Haiti, calling it a “catastrophe” fuelled by gang violence, widespread impunity and a political process that is hanging by a thread. More >>

Gaza: Acts Of War Bear Hallmarks Of Atrocity Crimes, Warn UN Humanitarians

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:40 pm | UN News

Lifesaving supplies in Gaza continue to run dangerously low, nearly four weeks into the total aid blockade and deadly bombardment of the enclave by Israel, UN humanitarians said on Friday. More >>

Armed Groups Install ‘Parallel Administration’ In DR Congo, Security Council Hears

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:39 pm | UN News

Armed groups affiliated with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have continued to expand their control in North and South Kivu – setting their sights on more territorial gains. More >>

Briefing - JD Vance's Speech In Greenland And Danish Foreign Minister's Response

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:37 pm | Polar Research and Policy Initiative

Statement of Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes, Founder and Managing Director of Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI), on JD Vance's Speech at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland and Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen's Response. More >>

HC Türk: Ukraine Needs Peace Based On Human Rights

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:35 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, our office has verified that more than 12,700 civilians have been killed and more than 30,000 have been injured. Again, the actual figures are almost certainly much higher. More >>

UN Human Rights Committee Publishes Findings On Albania, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Montenegro And Zimbabwe

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:33 pm | United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies

The findings contain the Committee’s main concerns and recommendations on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as positive aspects. More >>

Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan On The Forced Displacement Of Palestinians In Gaza

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:30 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

We call on all parties to reach a permanent ceasefire as soon as possible. Israel must immediately end its blockade of humanitarian assistance and refrain from any acts amounting to forcible transfer of Gaza’s population. More >>

Aoke-Langalanga CDC Charts Path For Future Growth, Discuss Key Priorities In First Summit

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:29 pm | Solomon Islands MRD

In terms of development priorities, participants engaged in robust discussions to identify the constituency’s most pressing development needs. More >>

Fiji: Don’t Be Fooled! New Alert To Expose Fake Astrology Money Traps

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:27 pm | Consumer Council of Fiji

The Council is also issuing a stern warning to these fraudsters. The Council will not only expose such fraudulent services but will also refer them to the Fiji Police Force for further investigation and potential prosecution. More >>

Unlocking Opportunities: Trade Show Inspires Innovation For SAFE MSMEs

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:24 pm | Pacific Community - SPC

Participants, from chefs and food producers to retailers and distributors, get opportunities to connect, collaborate, and discover opportunities that could shape the future of their businesses and the food sector. More >>

Breaking Barriers, Protecting Borders

Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:22 pm | Pacific Community - SPC

A standout feature of the training was the leadership of female trainers, Ms Boulekouran and Ms Tasale. Their leadership not only demonstrated the importance of women in agriculture but also emphasised the role of women as role models in a traditionally ... More >>