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Discretionary Funds Blamed For PNG No-confidence Push
Friday, 14 June 2024, 3:12 pm | RNZ
A Papua New Guinea academic believes that the discretionary funds handed out to MPs are the root of the country's persistent pushes for votes of no confidence. More >>
Work Continues To Relocate PNG Villagers After Devastating Landslide
Friday, 14 June 2024, 3:06 pm | RNZ
Enga's provincial administrator says tribal conflict was considered when finding a place to relocate displaced people. More >>
UN Envoy Warns Yemenis Not To Return To The Battlefield
Friday, 14 June 2024, 10:02 am | UN News
After months of relative stability in Yemen between Government and Houthi forces, a return to all-out war is looking inevitable unless the current escalation in violence is halted, the top UN envoy for the country said on Thursday. More >>
Climate Action Network Outcome Reaction
Friday, 14 June 2024, 9:26 am | Climate Action Network
Bonn has flopped. The UN climate talks are failing. We are in a climate emergency, yet rich country delegates seem to forget this, at our peril. There was next to no progress across the board. The June intersessionals were filled with more air than ... More >>
Japanese Farm Receives First ASC Certification For Commercial Cherry Salmon
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:59 am | Aquaculture Stewardship Council
Kamaishi (Japan) - Thursday 13 June 2024 Japanese farm Izumisawa Suisan has become the first commercial farm to obtain Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification for its cherry salmon production. The farm, which also produces coho salmon, is based ... More >>
ICC Prosecutor Appeals For Evidence Of Darfur Atrocities
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:47 am | UN News
The Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched a campaign on Tuesday to address the unfolding crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan, amid the going war between rival military forces that erupted last April. More >>
Ukraine Recovery Conference: UN Sounds Alarm Over Humanitarian Funding
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:40 am | UN News
The UN is becoming increasingly concerned over falling levels of humanitarian funding for civilians across war-torn Ukraine, the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) told delegates to the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin on Wednesday. More >>
Waiting Would Be ‘death Sentence’ For Millions On Brink Of Starvation: Relief Chief
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:29 am | UN News
Millions of people are teetering on the brink of starvation as conflict rages across many corners of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in Sudan and Gaza, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday. More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Liz Throssell On Afghanistan
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:19 am | OHCHR
In the latest step taken to disempower women in Afghanistan, the de facto authorities have told women civil servants barred from going to work that their salaries would now be cut to the lowest level regardless of their experience or qualifications. More >>
UN Reports ‘shocking’ Rise In Violations Against Children In Conflict In 2023
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:10 am | UN News
Violence against children caught in armed conflict reached “extreme levels” last year, with a “shocking” 21 per cent increase in extreme violations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a report published on Thursday. More >>
Stories From The UN Archive: Nigerian Nobel Laureate Condemns Online Hate
Friday, 14 June 2024, 4:00 am | UN News
When the world celebrates the Day of Living Together in Peace, we are looking back at how Nobel Laureate for Literature, Wole Soyinka, wielded powerful words to clobber online hate speech, call out religious extremism and refute the notion that human ... More >>
Guterres Highlights ‘Unique Level Of Destruction’ In Gaza Ahead Of G7 Summit
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 9:40 pm | UN News
A stark message to the world’s richest nations ahead of the G7 Summit in Italy to do more to help emerging economies crippled by debt repayments. More >>
Türk Addresses UN Security Council Open Debate On The Situation In The Democratic People’s Republic Of Korea
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 9:36 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
It is important that the international community continues to pay close attention to this most troubling human rights situation. This Council is uniquely placed to address the growing isolation of the DPRK which is a driver of both human rights ... More >>
Formal Mechanism To Monitor & Report On Crimes Against Children In Occupied Palestinian Territory Must Be Established
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 7:00 pm | Save The Children
The reported decision by UN Secy-Gen Antonio Guterres to include the Israeli security forces, Qassam Brigades (Hamas) and Al-Quds Brigades (Islamic Jihad) in this year’s UN report on Children and Armed Conflict is a vital step towards holding these actors ... More >>
FestPAC 2024: Pacific Traditional Leaders Sign Tuurama Ariki Declaration
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 5:39 pm | RNZ
The declaration solidifies their commitment to strengthen relationships and share knowledge on how to collectively face challenges confronting Pacific people. More >>
Vanuatu Votes In Favour Of Constitutional Change
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 5:25 pm | RNZ
It follows a slew of motions for votes of no confidence and three changes of government in 2023. More >>
NZDF Deepens Ties With Pacific Military Chaplains Through Auckland Forum
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 11:48 am | New Zealand Defence Force
Twenty-five chaplains from New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea are attending the week-long forum in Auckland. More >>
Climate Action Network Expectations For G7 Summit
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 10:42 am | Climate Action Network
The G7 Summit is a crucial moment to hold these major polluters accountable and push them to deliver new climate finance targets by COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. More >>
Facing A Surge In Wildfires, The U.S. Government Turned To Native Wisdom And Advanced Archaeology
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 9:30 am | Human Bridges
Collaborative efforts between forest agencies and Indigenous communities are improving wildfire management by combining oral histories with long-term archaeological datasets, demonstrating the value of integrating an understanding of the past into solutions More >>
Life In DPR Korea Still ‘Daily Struggle Devoid Of Hope’ Warns Human Rights Chief
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 8:17 am | UN News
The international community must continue to pay close attention to the troubling human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and find ways to revive dialogue with the Government, the UN Security Council heard on ... More >>
Guterres Hails 60 Years Of UN Trade And Development Action
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 5:04 am | UN News
The right to development is inextricably linked with trade which the world’s poorest countries - now “mired in debt” through no fault of their own - have every right to pursue on much fairer terms, UN chief António Guterres insisted on Wednesday. More >>
UN War Crimes Tribunals Move Closer To Completion
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 4:46 am | UN News
All of the 253 people indicted by UN tribunals for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed decades ago in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, have now been accounted for, the Security Council heard on Tuesday. More >>
Over 180 Migrants Dead Or Missing In Latest Tragedy Off Yemen, UN Agency Reports
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 4:37 am | UN News
At least 49 migrants have been killed, including many women and children, and a further 140 are missing after the boat they were on capsized off the coast of Yemen on Monday, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported. More >>
400 Million Under-fives Regularly Experience Violent Discipline At Home
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 4:30 am | UN News
Six in ten children under five years old worldwide regularly endure psychological aggression or physical punishment at home, according to new UNICEF estimates. Of these nearly 400 million under-fives, 330 million are punished by physical means. More >>
Momentum Builds For Further Live Export Bans As Campaigners Mark International Awareness Day
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 4:19 am | Compassion in World Farming
Call for countries to follow Great Britain’s lead in banning cruel trade in live animals as activists take part in mass online action More >>
RSDP Delivers 3 New Vehicles For MOI Honiara-based Communities
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 3:59 am | Solomon Islands MRD
“This is a timely assistance. These vehicles will certainly help our people especially in Honiara to mobilize their economic activities and other community programs as well,” Member of Parliament for MOI and the Minister for the Ministry of Lands, ... More >>
VNYLab, A Music Platform For Independent Artists And Their Fans, Acquires Patron Empowerment
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 8:27 pm | Jim DeLorenzo
The multi-million-dollar transaction will further accelerate the rapid growth of the VNYLab platform, which will officially debut this summer. More >>
From The Frontlines: Homeless Person Won Over Alcoholism, Survived Floods And Defeated TB
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 7:36 pm | CNS
A month before the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) opens in Munich, Germany, here is a real-life story from the frontline that makes a clarion call to #PutPeopleFirst. More >>
Democratic Workers’ Rights Crumbling: 2024 ITUC Global Rights Index
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 6:45 pm | ITUC
The 2024 ITUC Global Rights Index makes for difficult reading – a clear and urgent wake-up call that the democratic values and fundamental rights agreed upon by most countries at an international level are crumbling. More >>
FestPAC 2024: 'Fight against the extinction of Pacific people'
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:37 pm | RNZ
A community elder from Guam says the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture event is about more than "revitalising cultures". More >>
NZ Prime Minister Visits USP Laucala Campus As He Tours The Pacific
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 3:58 pm | University Of South Pacific
This visit underscores New Zealand’s commitment to USP and celebrates the 56 years of partnership between the two parties. More >>
Creative Ecosystems Can Breed Innovative Future For Tourism
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 3:47 pm | APEC
Collectively, we can shape a thriving future for tourism in the APEC region. More >>
New Caledonia: After Macron’s Dissolution, What Happens To The Controversial Constitutional Amendment?
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 2:45 pm | RNZ
The French Constitution says all pending bills left unvoted by the Lower House are cancelled because the dissolution signifies the end of the legislature and therefore of the current ordinary session. More >>
CAPHRA To Showcase Global Lessons From New Zealand And Sweden At GFN 2024
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 1:34 pm | CAPHRA
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is thrilled to announce its participation in the upcoming Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) in Warsaw, Poland, from June 13 to 15, 2024. CAPHRA will be featured in PANEL 2: “GLOBAL LESSONS: ... More >>
Parity For Women Remains Five Generations Away
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 11:40 am | World Economic Forum
The Global Gender Gap Report 2024, published today, reveals that the world has closed 68.5% of the gender gap. However, at the current pace it will take another 134 years – equivalent to five generations – to achieve full gender parity. More >>
"This Job Doesn't Deserve Me": Catch-Up Clubs Help Stop Child Labour In DRC’S Deadly Cobalt Mines
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 11:19 am | Save The Children
Children working in some of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) cobalt mines are getting support to trade their tools for textbooks to escape from dangerous and even fatal worker exploitation, Save the Children said on World Day Against Child ... More >>
China, Russia, And Iran Call On The West To Restore Nuclear Deal
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 10:32 am | Globetrotter
The JCPOA was signed by Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany in 2015. The deal allowed Iran to have a peaceful nuclear program under certain restrictions and strict international observation. In return, all international ... More >>
Health Care In Gaza Under Siege As People Near Starvation
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 10:28 am | Globetrotter
A full-fledged famine has not yet been declared, but several health and nutrition experts have warned that people in Gaza are already dying of hunger. “Once a famine is declared, it is too late—many people will have already starved to death,” ... More >>
100,000 Form “Red Line” Around White House To Protest U.S. Support Of Israel
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 10:24 am | Globetrotter
The demonstrators were denouncing Biden’s previous claims that the invasion of Rafah by Israel would be a red line for his administration, even threatening to withhold weapons shipments when Israel was still threatening to invade. More >>
Far-Right Surge Shakes Up European Parliament Elections
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 9:32 am | Globetrotter
According to preliminary results, combined, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and Identity and Democracy (ID) groups secured only four fewer seats than the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), the second-largest group ... More >>
Spokesperson For The UN High Commissioner For Human Rights: Jeremy Laurence
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:56 am | OHCHR
The High Commissioner calls on all parties as well as third States, in particular those with influence over the parties to the conflict, to also maximise efforts to work towards the goal whereby Israelis and Palestinians can fully enjoy all human ... More >>
Support Palestinian Women-led Organizations At Heart Of Gaza Aid Response
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:47 am | UN News
The UN agency championing gender equality called on Monday for greater investment in Palestinian women-led organizations who are at the forefront of humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip. More >>
World News In Brief: ‘Gender Apartheid’ In Afghanistan, DR Congo Rights Abuses, Reforestation Crucial To Climate Fight
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:45 am | UN News
The oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021 is unmatched in terms of scale and generational impact, according to a new update on gender discrimination in the country from UN Women released on Monday. More >>
Youth In Haiti Remain Optimistic Amid Worsening Instability
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:43 am | UN News
The crisis in Haiti has left children among the most vulnerable to extreme violence, malnutrition, poverty, and collapsing social systems there, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). More >>
Envoy Highlights Progress Towards A New Political Landscape In Central Africa
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:41 am | UN News
The adoption of a new constitution in Chad alongside new inclusive dialogue in Gabon, standout as positive recent developments in Central Africa, the head of the UN office for the region said on Monday. More >>
Yemen: UN Chief Demands Release Of Aid Workers Held By Houthis
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:39 am | UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Tuesday for the immediate release of all United Nations staff held in Yemen by the de facto Houthi authorities, following the detention of 13 of the Organization’s personnel. More >>
India: Free Mohammad Arfat, End Indefinite Detentions Of Refugees
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:34 am | Fortify Rights
Fortify Rights files complaint with U.N. body on arbitrary detention More >>
Shining A Light On 10,000 Lives: Solar Power Enhances Healthcare In Rural Papua New Guinea
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:29 am | EU STREIT PNG
In northwest of Papua New Guinea a lifeline now lights steadily. The EU-STREIT PNG Programme's solar power initiative at the Ossima sub-health centre has illuminated not just the building, but the lives of 10,000 villagers who now have access to essential ... More >>
UNDP Supports Innovative Solution To ‘war Waste’ In Ukraine
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:27 am | UN News
The UN Development Progamme (UNDP) is helping to tackle the mountain of rubble and waste in Ukraine - one of the fallouts from the full-scale Russian invasion of the country, now in its third year. More >>
Gaza: Security Council Adopts US Resolution Calling For ‘Immediate, Full And Complete Ceasefire’
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:26 am | UN News
The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution aimed at reaching a comprehensive ceasefire deal in three phases to end the war in Gaza, with US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield telling members "today, we voted for peace." More >>
World Day Against Child Labour 2024: Urgent Action To End Child Labour
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:21 am | ITUC
“We urge all nations to improve their implementation of ILO Convention 182, on the worst forms of child labour and we urge the ratification of Convention 138 on Minimum Age by the 11 governments who have not yet done so”. More >>
APEC Tourism Ministers Issue Joint Statement
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:17 am | APEC
Under the theme of “Innovating Pathways for Sustainable Tourism Growth,” the statement highlights the need for innovative approaches to address current challenges in the tourism sector. More >>
FAO Report: Global Fisheries And Aquaculture Production Reaches A New Record High
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:15 am | UN FAO
Aquaculture surpasses capture fisheries in aquatic animal production for the first time, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024 says. More >>
‘Victory’ For Farmers: Groups Welcome End Of FAO #ToxicAlliance With Pesticide Industry
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:12 am | PAN Asia Pacific
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) joins civil society & Indigenous Peoples organisations in welcoming the end of a three-year controversial partnership agreement between the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and CropLife International, an association ... More >>
Towards A More Prosperous And Sustainable Tourism Future
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:10 am | APEC
As APEC economies navigate this ongoing tourism revival, the APEC Tourism Working Group has identified two key priorities for 2024. More >>
Afro-Descendant Peoples In Latin America Demand COP16 Prioritize Their Communities
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:08 am | Burness
Entitled, “Securing Afro-descendant Peoples’ land tenure rights in Latin America and the Caribbean,” the four-day event begin on June 11, marking a pivotal moment for Afro-descendant movements in the region and their decades-long struggle to be ... More >>
Gaza: ‘high Time’ For Ceasefire And Hostage Release, Says Guterres
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:06 am | UN News
A comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza linked to the release of all remaining hostages cannot come too soon, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, as he welcomed the Security Council resolution adopted a day earlier seeking an end ... More >>
UN Urges Regional Cooperation To Accelerate Digitalization Of Cross-border Trade Procedures
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:04 am | UN ESCAP
The central element of the Week was the CPTA, a UN treaty aimed at accelerating the implementation of digital trade measures for trade and development. More >>
Indonesian Senate Leader: Protect Uncontacted Tribe From Nickel Mining
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:02 am | Survival International
Senate Leader AA LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti, a close ally of President-elect Prabowo, said Hongana Manyawa people should be protected from nickel mining on their land. He urged the government to “immediately intervene to provide protection to the ... More >>
Comment By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk On Detention Of Staff In Yemen
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 3:59 am | OHCHR
The UN Human Rights Office has been working in Yemen since 2012, for the promotion and protection of the rights of all the people of Yemen, including through engagement with the de facto authorities. More >>
