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Global Day Of Action To Destigmatise Abortion | 28th March

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 9:17 pm | CNS

Even though right to abortion is part of promises made by our governments by endorsing Beijing Declaration 1995 and critical to deliver on UN Sustainable Development Goal-5 for gender equality and human rights, progress is not satisfactory. More >>

Commemorating The 50th Anniversary Of The Biological Weapons Convention

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 9:15 pm | U.S. Department of State

The United States remains firmly committed to the BWC and the international norm against use of biological weapons. We unilaterally renounced biological weapons in 1969, before the BWC was negotiated, and over the past 50 years, we have remained ... More >>

Usain Bolt And Christian Eriksen Team Up For Laureus Sport For Good Visit In Manchester

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 8:07 pm | Laureus

During the visit, Usain and Christian took part in training drills, shared lessons from their own careers at the pinnacle of world sport and heard first-hand about the role football plays in helping transform the lives of young people involved in ... More >>

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Crunch Time For Climate Action: Fossil Fuels Or A 1.5°C Future?

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 7:53 pm | Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport

ISWG-GHG 19 offers IMO member states a chance to align their positions and put forward a unified, ambitious plan for decision at MEPC 83. The world cannot afford further delay. More >>

Sanctioning Iranian Intelligence Officers Involved In The Probable Death Of Robert Levinson

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 7:38 pm | U.S. Department of State

The United States will also continue our relentless efforts to secure the release of all U.S. nationals who are held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad and reunite them with their loved ones. We condemn Iran’s longstanding record of unjust detentions ... More >>

Myanmar Earthquake A Further Blow For Millions Of Children

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 4:56 pm | UNICEF Aotearoa NZ

The earthquake is the latest blow to a country already struggling with escalating conflict and climate shocks. Millions of children were already living in fear and conflict, facing displacement and deepening poverty. More >>

Australia's $5 Billion Foreign Aid Budget: What's In It For The Pacific

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 3:14 pm | RNZ

There will be a substantial commitment to the Pacific, and money has also been earmarked to fill some of the gap left by the United States withdrawing its global aid programme. More >>

World Vision New Zealand Launches Urgent Appeal To Help Children Affected By Myanmar Earthquake

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 3:01 pm | World Vision New Zealand

World Vision has committed twenty per cent of its Area Programme's existing funds to provide humanitarian assistance in target areas. The aid agency is in close communication with Community-Based Organisations to conduct initial assessments and ... More >>

UN Teams Ramp Up Response To Deadly Quake In Myanmar And Thailand

Saturday, 29 March 2025, 5:26 am | UN News

Amid reports of hundreds dead or missing following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in central Myanmar, UN teams in the region are “responding fast”, said UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Friday. More >>

Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Advance Discussions On Regional Reforms - Cook Islands Govt

Friday, 28 March 2025, 7:25 pm | RNZ

The Pacific Islands Forum troika leaders have reviewed a list of "eminent persons" with extensive knowledge on Pacific regionalism to leads discussions on regional reforms. More >>

Bougainville MPs convert House of Representatives into a Constituent Assembly

Friday, 28 March 2025, 7:14 pm | RNZ

The next phase in Bougainville's transition from autonomy to independence has begun, President Ishmael Toroama says. More >>

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth In Guam: 'We Are Not Seeking War With China'

Friday, 28 March 2025, 7:04 pm | RNZ

The US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth visited Guam on Thursday and reiterated Washington's commitment to the region. More >>

Fitting The ‘Missing Puzzle Pieces’ – Research Sheds Light On The Deep History Of Social Change In West Papua

Friday, 28 March 2025, 6:41 pm | The Conversation

Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day West Papua, some 50,000 years ago. More >>

"Desperate And Deceitful"- Deep Sea Mining Frontrunner Turns Its Back On Pacific Nations

Friday, 28 March 2025, 4:33 pm | Greenpeace

The move leaves Nauru, Kiribati and Tonga in the lurch, and is an insult to multilateralism. TMC has been trying to bully the international community at the ISA to serve its greedy agenda, pressuring and deceiving Pacific governments with the promise of a ... More >>

Australia Announces Election Dates, Pacific Islanders Rally To Vote For Climate

Friday, 28 March 2025, 3:03 pm | 350.org

With the election just five weeks away, Pacific climate activists in Australia are rallying to make climate a voting priority in their communities. More >>

Sudan: Rights Chief Deplores Deadly Army Strikes On North Darfur Market

Friday, 28 March 2025, 12:08 pm | UN News

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has again called for greater protection of civilians in war-torn Sudan following deadly army airstrikes in North Darfur earlier this week. More >>

Biological Weapons ‘must Not Only Be Unthinkable But Also Impossible’

Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:48 am | UN News

The world came together 50 years ago to ban biological weapons and in today’s volatile geopolitical climate we can ill-afford to let this moral safeguard “erode”, the UN’s High Representative for Disarmament Affairs said on Wednesday. More >>

Pakistan: UN Experts Demand Release Of Baloch Human Rights Defenders, And An End To Crackdown On Peaceful Protest

Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:44 am | UN News

The experts expressed concern about an escalating series of actions by the Pakistan police against the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a network advocating for the rights of the minority Baloch community. More >>

Comment By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk On Sudanese Armed Forces Airstrikes In Tora, North Darfur

Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:41 am | UN News

UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk urges both parties to take all measures, as required by law, to avoid harming civilians and attacking civilian objects. Indiscriminate attacks and attacks against civilians, and civilian objects, are unacceptable ... More >>

UN Experts Urge Immediate Action To Protect Children Against Trafficking For Recruitment And Use In Hostilities In DRC

Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:37 am | UN News

Reports from health facilities indicate a rise in rape cases, with children accounting for 30 per cent of those treated. Humanitarian agencies have identified more than 1,100 unaccompanied and separated children in North and South Kivu. More >>

Belarus: Alarming Ill-Treatment Of Women Prisoners And Life-Threatening Condition Of Viktoria Kulsha, Say UN Experts

Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:31 am | UN News

Kulsha is currently being held in Zarechye Correctional Colony No. 24 and has reportedly suffered a serious deterioration in her physical and mental health. However, she has been denied adequate medical and psychological care and continues to be subjected ... More >>

Greenpeace And Displaced Rongelap Community Honour Commitment To Nuclear And Climate Justice Fight

Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:09 am | Greenpeace

"We continue to stand with the Marshallese community - as we do with other communities that suffer displacement and colonial exploitation - in their fight for justice for the nuclear weapons legacy, and for the threats they are already feeling from climate ... More >>

Nigeria Must Urgently Halt Demolitions Of Waterfront Communities In Lagos

Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:47 am | UN News

Demolitions must never lead to homelessness of the evicted persons, who should have access to adequate alternative housing, resettlement and compensation for lost property. More >>

DR Congo: Record Numbers Face Acute Or Emergency Hunger

Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:42 am | UN News

A record 27.7 million people are in the grip of acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid ongoing conflict linked to massive displacement and rising food prices, global food security experts warned on Thursday. More >>

Fast Fashion Fuelling Global Waste Crisis, UN Chief Warns

Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:31 am | UN News

Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of clothing either incinerated or sent to landfill every second, the UN chief warned on Thursday. More >>

Sudan War: Displacement Figures Fall For First Time

Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:04 am | UN News

For the first time in nearly two years of brutal conflict between rival militaries, the number of Sudanese internally displaced has fallen, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Thursday. More >>

UN Rights Body Sounds The Alarm Over South Sudan Crisis

Friday, 28 March 2025, 9:57 am | UN News

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan issued an alert on Thursday over the rapidly escalating crisis in the country, calling for urgent coordinated action to protect civilians and preserve the 2018 peace deal that ended five years of civil ... More >>

No-Confidence Vote Is A Vital Safety 'Valve' For PNG - Political Scientist

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 6:26 pm | RNZ

Earlier this month, the Papua New Guinea government amended the country's constitution to make it more difficult to bring votes of no confidence in the government. More >>

Global Aid Funding Cuts - 14 Million Children At Increased Risk Of Severe Malnutrition And Death

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 5:06 pm | UNICEF Aotearoa NZ

At least 14 million children are expected to face disruptions to nutrition support and services because of recent and expected global funding cuts, leaving them at heightened risk of severe malnutrition and death - according to initial analyses ... More >>

Oxfam: Humanitarian Operations In Gaza Severely Hampered; Famine Risks Increasing

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 1:03 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa

Oxfam is calling for a renewed ceasefire and for Israel to lift its 23-day siege which is again blocking aid supplies and increasing famine risks for desperate civilians. Israel imposed a complete blockade 23 days ago and cut off electricity to Gaza a ... More >>

Is Climate Science The Next Power Source For Renewable Energy?

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 11:32 am | UN News

As solar, wind, and hydropower expand, scientists say integrating climate data and forecasting is key to making renewable systems stronger. More >>

‘Renewables Are Renewing Economies’, UN Chief Tells Top Climate Forum

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 10:42 am | UN News

Ministers from 40 countries met on Wednesday at the first major climate forum of 2025 to discuss progress in renewable energy generation and the rising toll of inaction over rising temperatures. More >>

Pact For The Future: Countries Urged To Translate Pledges Into Action

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 10:04 am | UN News

UN Member States met on Wednesday for the first of three key meetings to advance a global agreement that pledges concrete actions to achieve a safer, more peaceful, sustainable and inclusive world for generations to come. More >>

Yemen: Ten Years Of War, A Lifetime Of Loss

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 8:58 am | UN News

Marking a decade of war in Yemen, Othman Belbeisi, Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa at the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM), highlights the resilience of its people, the deepening humanitarian crisis, and the urgent need ... More >>

Church Community Hall Rennovations Given The Green Light

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:15 pm | Government Of The Cook Islands

Ngatangiia safety shelter renovations to commence More >>

Dame Jacinda Ardern Joins Oxford University Group Training Leaders

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 8:39 pm | RNZ

The former PM says she hopes to also contribute to thinking about deep challenges the world is facing. More >>

'Legalisation Of Dictatorship': Why Fiji Government Wants To Change The Country's 2013 Constitution?

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 8:37 pm | RNZ

The supreme law of the land effectively legalises dictatorship, according to one of the deputy prime ministers of the island nation. More >>

PNG Media Council Calls For Greater Transparency Over Social Media Control Testing

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 8:35 pm | RNZ

The Council is also critical of the government apparently testing new technology to control access to social media, without telling the people what is going on. More >>

Climate-resilient Healthcare For Pacific Top Priority For UN Health Agency

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 8:32 pm | RNZ

Dr Saia Ma'u Piukala, the UN health agency's regional director for the Western Pacific, says building climate-resilient healthcare facilities for Pacific people is a key focus. More >>

JD Vance Will Join Usha Vance In Greenland This Week

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 2:59 pm | Polar Research and Policy Initiative

On Tuesday, 25 March, the US Vice-President JD Vance announced that he will be joining Second Lady Usha Vance on her visit to Greenland later this week, 27-29 May. More >>

Students Take Action Against University Of Manchester’s Ties To Tel Aviv University

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 2:54 pm | Manchester Leftist Action

To honour Israel Apartheid Week and in remembrance of nearly fifty thousand lives lost in Gaza since Israel broke ceasefire last Wednesday, the students are occupying the Simon Building in protest of the University’s complicity in the ongoing genocide. More >>

Migrant Deaths In Asia Hit Record High In 2024, UN Data Reveals

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 11:33 am | UN News

The year 2024 marked the deadliest on record for migrants in Asia, with at least 2,514 lives lost along the region’s perilous migration routes, according to new data from the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM). More >>

First, They Came For The Venezuelans

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 10:50 am | Independent Media Institute

Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized citizens, or native-born citizens—are safe. More >>

Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Liz Throssell On Widespread Detentions In Türkiye

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:49 am | UN News

Over 1,000 people have been detained during the protests, among them at least nine media workers. More >>

Niger: Türk Says Egregious Mosque Attack Should Be Wake-Up Call

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:45 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

The attack, in Kokorou village, in the Tillaberi region, came in the context of a general deterioration in the security situation in the wider Sahel region. More >>

Yemen: One In Two Children Severely Malnourished After 10 Years Of War

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:32 am | UN News

In Yemen, a decade of conflict has proved catastrophic for the country’s children living under the threat of airstrikes and staggeringly high malnutrition rates, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. More >>

Crimes Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade ‘Unacknowledged, Unspoken And Unaddressed’

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:20 am | UN News

The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday, marking the International Day of Remembrance for its victims. More >>

‘Fragility And Hope’ Mark New Era In Syria Amid Ongoing Violence And Aid Struggles

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:14 am | UN News

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen briefed the Security Council on Tuesday, pointing to the devastating violence on the coast earlier this month, which marked a grim new chapter in Syria’s fragile transition to a lasting peace. More >>

Aid Operations Stretched To The Limit In Burundi By Ongoing DR Congo Crisis

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:02 am | UN News

With thousands fleeing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) across the border into Burundi, aid operations are stretched to the limit, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. More >>

PWDA Responds To The Federal Budget

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 8:29 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA

Federal Budget 2025: People with disability invisible in key budget measures but funding for disability supports a start More >>

BBC Gaza Documentary: How An Editorial Blame Game Overshadowed An Important Film And Destroyed Trust

Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 7:05 pm | The Conversation

A broadcaster can’t blame someone else when a mistake appears in a film. More >>

PNG 'test' blocks Facebook, citizens download VPN apps to stay connected

Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 6:58 pm | RNZ

The country's Police Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr says the "test" was done under the framework of the Anti-Terrorism Act 2024. More >>

Papua New Guinea PM Marape arrives in NZ today

Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 6:56 pm | RNZ

Papua's New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape arrives in New Zealand today for a three-day state visit. More >>

Japan Assures Marshall Islands Of Transparency On Fukushima Wastewater Discharge

Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 6:55 pm | RNZ

Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has told President Dr Hilda Heine that Japan will remain transparent about the controversial release of treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. More >>

New Zealand-led Task Force Continues To Disrupt Illegal Narcotics Smugglers In The Middle East

Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 4:08 pm | New Zealand Defence Force

Royal New Zealand Navy Captain Dave Barr, acting Commander of CTF 150, said this bust was a testament to the expert seamanship of the USCGC Emlen Tunnell, operating in challenging waters. More >>

MSF Condemns Israeli Strike On Nasser Hospital In Gaza, Calls For Protection Of Health Facilities

Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 2:42 pm | Medecins Sans Frontieres

"Strikes such as these are horrific for staff and patients” says Claire Nicolet, MSF head of emergencies in Gaza. “We cannot go back to repeated attacks on health care facilities when the health system in Gaza is already hanging by a thread, and ... More >>