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Law Society Warns Cook Islands' Religious Rules 'Against Human Rights'
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:09 pm | RNZ
This comes as churches on the island are pushing for a constitutional amendment to declare Cook Islands a Christian nation. More >>
Cook Islanders 'Completely Sucked In': Deep Sea Mining Companies Accused Of Infiltrating Society
Friday, 14 March 2025, 8:17 pm | RNZ
However, one mining company disagrees, saying that, "If you do not do anything, you get accused, and if you do something, you still get accused." More >>
MSF Briefs UN Security Council On Sudan: A Catastrophic "War On People"
Friday, 14 March 2025, 3:37 pm | Medecins Sans Frontieres
MSF provides medical care in 11 of Sudan's states, on both sides of the conflict, according to humanitarian principles. MSF teams in Sudan have warned of alarming levels of malnutrition in many areas, while infectious and vaccine-preventable diseases ... More >>
New Zealand-Led Task Force Makes $NZ375-million Drug Bust In The Middle East
Friday, 14 March 2025, 3:04 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
HMS Lancaster’s commanding officer, Commander Sam Stephens, says it was pleasing to demonstrate the use of a tailored air group, which included the Wildcat helicopter and the recently procured uncrewed Peregrine air system. More >>
A Third Of Myanmar’s Population Faces Food Insecurity: UN Human Rights Experts
Friday, 14 March 2025, 10:23 am | OHCHR
“As the junta continue to lose territory to armed resistance groups, it has retaliated by blockading aid, and restricting humanitarian access, limiting trade routes, and targeting humanitarian workers, further compounding an already dire food crisis." More >>
Europe Grapples With Highest Number Of Measles Cases In More Than 25 Years
Friday, 14 March 2025, 10:06 am | UN News
Measles cases in Europe have doubled in just a year, with the highest number reported since 1997, UN agencies announced on Thursday. More >>
‘Brighter Future Hangs In The Balance’ In Syria After 14 Years Of War
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:47 am | UN News
The Constitutional Declaration issued by Syria’s caretaker authorities marks a pivotal moment in the country’s turbulent transition, with UN Special Envoy expressing cautious optimism about its potential to fill a legal vacuum and pave the way for ... More >>
Sudan War: Children Facing ‘Unimaginable Suffering’, Warns UNICEF Chief
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:43 am | UN News
Sudan is now the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday. After two years of war, over 30 million people – more than half of them children – are living in ... More >>
UN Chief Hails Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Treaty Breakthrough
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:31 am | UN News
The UN Secretary-General warmly welcomed the presidential signing of the State Border Treaty by Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on Thursday following decades-long negotiations. More >>
Conflict, Hunger, Poverty Impede Children's Early Development: Türk
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:08 am | UN News
Governments everywhere are “letting children down instead of lifting them up” as conflict, hunger, poverty and climate change hold back child development, UN rights chief Volker Türk told Member States in Geneva on Thursday. More >>
UN SPT Welcomes Establishment Of National Preventive Mechanisms In Benin, Madagascar, Nigeria, And South Africa
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:28 pm | United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies
The OPCAT’s torture prevention architecture is built on the partnership between the SPT, the international body designated by the treaty, and the NPMs, our national counterparts. More >>
Bangladesh, Arakan Army: Establish Humanitarian Corridor For War-Affected Civilians In Myanmar
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:25 pm | Fortify Rights
Myanmar junta’s restrictions on aid may constitute war crimes More >>
APEC Calls For 2025 Healthy Women, Healthy Economy Research Prize Entries
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:22 pm | APEC
Since its launch in 2019 by Chile during its APEC host year, the Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Prize has celebrated research that equips policymakers and business leaders with the knowledge to implement strategies that empower women in the workforce. More >>
Massive Victory By Nexperia Philippines Workers Union Against Savage Union-Busting Strategy
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:19 pm | ICHRP
ICHRP Salutes Workers and Supports the Fight Ahead More >>
Welcoming Surinamese Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin As The Organization Of The American States Secretary General
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:09 pm | U.S. Department of State
The United States believes that a stable, secure, and prosperous hemisphere is vital to advancing the Trump Administration’s priorities to make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous. More >>
Joint Statement On The United States-Ukraine Meeting In Jeddah
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:07 pm | U.S. Department of State
The text was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Ukraine. More >>
UN Launches Gender Equality Plan: ‘We’re At A Turning Point’
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:02 pm | UN News
The UN launched a bold new action agenda to boost rights and achieve gender equality at a high-level event on the sidelines of the ongoing Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) session at UN Headquarters in New York on Wednesday. More >>
Guterres Prioritises UN Reform To Ensure Taxpayers’ Money Reaches Those In Need
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:01 pm | UN News
The United Nations is prioritising reform to ensure it remains effective, cost-efficient and responsive to the people it serves, Secretary-General António Guterres announced Wednesday, as part of a continued push to modernize the Organization. More >>
Gaza Aid ‘Unravelling’, Funding Cuts In Ukraine, Concern Over Syria Aid Access, Duterte In ICC Custody
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:51 pm | UN News
Following 11 days of an Israeli aid blockade in Gaza, “crucial progress” made during the first six weeks of the ceasefire between Israeli forces and Hamas militants “continues to unravel”, said UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Wednesday. More >>
In The Face Of ‘Unprecedented Pressure’, EU Calls For Primacy Of International Law And Partnership
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:42 pm | UN News
The European Union remains committed to upholding international law and defending the United Nations Charter amid growing security threats, the bloc’s top diplomat told the Security Council on Tuesday. More >>
Bangladesh: Rohingya Children’s Acute Hunger Surges Amid Funding Cuts
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:37 pm | UN News
In Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee settlements, child malnutrition has surged and cuts to aid funding risk creating a humanitarian “catastrophe”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday. More >>
ICHRP Welcomes Duterte’s Arrest: A Landmark Step Towards Justice
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:24 pm | ICHRP
“This is a historic moment for the victims and their families who have long suffered under Duterte’s reign of terror,” said ICHRP Chairperson Peter Murphy. More >>
BRIEFING NOTES: Syria: Distressing Scale Of Violence In Coastal Areas
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:22 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The UN Human Rights Office has so far documented the killing of 111 civilians, but the process of verification is ongoing, and the actual number of people killed is believed to be significantly higher. More >>
Call For Widespread Condemnation & Concrete Action To End The Racist & Xenophobic Attacks Against Blacks In Mauritania
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:20 pm | Sahel Solidarity Campaign Network
We want to remind the government of Mauritania that Black People in that country are not commodities, they are not illegal aliens or mere victims, but rather are equally human beings. Black People are humanity and their rights must be protected ... More >>
Is Patriarchy Petrifying Governments To Deliver On Gender Equality?
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:17 pm | CNS
It is not by chance, but by patriarchal purpose and design, that trade treaties are binding and declarations like Beijing Declaration are non-binding. More >>
NZ Might Soon Be In Firing Line For US Tariffs In Trump's Trade War - Economist
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 8:26 pm | RNZ
New Zealand might soon be in the firing line for US tariffs amid an escalating global trade war, an economist is warning. More >>
Trump's Trade War, Aid Cuts Sends Negative Signal To The Pacific - Analyst
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 8:22 pm | RNZ
Lowy Institute's Alexandre Dayant says Washington "is shooting itself in the foot" by imposing tariffs and freezing international aid. More >>
Papua New Guinea Declares Christian Identity In Constitutional Amendment
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 8:18 pm | RNZ
The decision, made on Tuesday, saw an overwhelming majority of 80 votes in favour and only four against. More >>
Pacific News In Brief For 13 March
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 8:12 pm | RNZ
A round-up of news from around the region, Vanuatu authorities have deported a group of Vietnamese nationals found selling tarpaulins while on tourist visas. More >>
Press Statement By William O'Neill, UN Expert On The Human Rights Situation In Haiti
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 7:20 pm | OHCHR
"The international community, for its part, must act without delay to implement the commitments it has made, particularly with regard to the sanctions regime, the arms embargo, and the substantial reinforcement of multinational security support, in ... More >>
Trump’s Address To Congress Highlights The Absence Of Opposition
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 7:04 pm | Independent Media Institute
The relentless resistance that defined Trump’s first term has faded into an unsettling quiet. A perfect storm of factors has granted him relatively unchecked power to push drastic domestic and international changes. More >>
Human Rights Council: Significant Increase In Child Victims Of Trafficking
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 6:50 pm | UN News
Children make up almost four in 10 victims of trafficking worldwide, but the true number of youngsters caught up in the illegal practice is likely much higher, a senior UN official warned on Wednesday. More >>
SETF Welcomes Historic Agreement Between The Syrian Government And Syrian Democratic Forces
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 6:41 pm | Syrian Emergency Task Force
This agreement represents a profound shift in Syria’s political and military landscape, establishing a framework for integrating civil and military institutions in northeastern Syria under the governance of the Syrian state. More >>
Beyond Civil War: The Trauma And Tragedy For Syria’s Children
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 6:37 pm | World Vision New Zealand
Fourteen years since civil war erupted in Syria (March 15), and just three months since the fall of the former regime, there is now a critical opportunity to support a generation of children who have grown up knowing nothing but conflict. More >>
Philippines: Türk Says Arrest Of Former President Duterte Is Important Step Toward Accountability
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:57 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
A report by the UN Human Rights Office in 2020 found there were credible allegations of widespread and systematic extrajudicial killings in the context of the campaign against illegal drugs, and that there had been near impunity for such violations. More >>
Humanitarian System At Breaking Point As Funding Cuts Force Life-Or-Death Choices
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:33 am | UN News
The UN’s top relief official warned on Wednesday that the global humanitarian system has reached breaking point, with funding cuts forcing life-or-death decisions over which aid programmes to sustain and which to shut down. More >>
Pacific News In Brief For 12 March
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 9:19 pm | RNZ
A round-up of news from around the region, including results for an election in Federated States of Micronesia's Yap State. More >>
Bougainville Leaders Forum Recommends September 2027 For Independence
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 8:56 pm | RNZ
The Bougainville Independence Leaders Consultation Forum has passed key resolutions and recommended 1 September 2027 as the date for Bougainville's independence. More >>
Pacific Islanders 'Have A Very High-Risk Of Overstaying' - NZ Immigration Expert
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 8:53 pm | RNZ
A New Zealand immigration advisor believes visa-free travel should not be extended to visitors from Pacific Island nations despite growing calls for free movement of people in the region. More >>
Fiji PM silent on allegations of receiving NZ$113,000 Rolex watch
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 8:49 pm | RNZ
Photos of Sitiveni Rabuka flaunting the gold bling have been circulating on socia media and one former prime minister is demanding answers. More >>
Australia: PFA Partners With UK’s ‘The Great Save’ To Reduce Football Kit Waste
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 8:27 pm | Professional Footballers Australia PFA
The Great Save aims to keep sports kit in play for longer - via donations, re-sale, reusing or upcycling – helping to reduce waste, save money, and support those in the community who may otherwise lack access to kit. More >>
Indigenous Women Call For Recognition Of Rights At 69th Session Of UN Commission On The Status Of Women
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 6:10 pm | Maori Women's Welfare League
Considering the UNCSW69 theme - a review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action - members from MWWL, NATSIWA and ONWA are also raising awareness of the Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women. More >>
Israeli Authorities Must Stop Collective Punishment Of Palestinians And Use Of Aid As A Tool Of War
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 12:10 pm | Doctors Without Borders
Israel's allies have purposefully ignored this grave violation of international humanitarian law and normalised this conduct. MSF also urges Israel’s allies, including United States, to refrain from normalising such actions & to act decisively to prevent Gaza ... More >>
Questions And Proposed Insights Into Evil
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Evil is not a right-left issue, as the legacy left at the Guardian believes. They insist the solutions are political, though political evil emanates from social darkness, deadness and apathy. More >>
‘Furious Kickback Against Equality’ Must End, UN Chief Tells Women Activists
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 11:12 am | UN News
At a time of growing backlash against women’s rights, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a stark call to action on Tuesday to civil society representatives gathered for a town hall meeting – part of the ongoing Commission on the Status ... More >>
WHO Injects Fresh Support Into DR Congo Vaccination Drive
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 11:05 am | UN News
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has stepped up efforts to improve vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by providing vital logistical support, including boats and motorcycles to reach remote communities along the Congo ... More >>
Participatory Budgeting Includes Community Members In The Public Funding Process
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 10:57 am | Independent Media Institute
As governmental authoritarianism intensifies, citizens “double down on democracy” through the participatory model. More >>
His Majesty The King Plants A Tree To Commemorate Pan-Commonwealth Commitment To The Queen's Commonwealth Canopy
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 10:05 am | Royal Commonwealth Society
Launched at the 2015 Malta Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy was the first environmental initiative in The Late Queen’s name. The project ended in 2022, after pan-Commonwealth sign-up was achieved. More >>
What Was It Like For Our Sapiens Ancestors To Meet And Mix With Cousin Species?
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 9:40 am | Independent Media Institute
Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically modern humans is one of the biggest questions in prehistory today. More >>
Rainbow Warrior Arrives In Marshall Islands To Call For Nuclear & Climate Justice On 40th Anni Of Rongelap Evacuation
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 8:25 am | Greenpeace
Escorted by traditional canoes, and welcomed by Marshallese singing and dancing, the arrival of the Rainbow Warrior marks a significant moment in the shared history of Greenpeace and the Marshall Islands, since Greenpeace crew evacuated over 300 ... More >>
New Child Sex Offence Charges For Disgraced Businessman Ron Brierley
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 9:03 pm | RNZ
Ron Brierley has been charged with more child sex offences, three years after being released from prison. More >>
Steering The APEC Region Through Unprecedented Global Challenges In A New Era
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 8:08 pm | APEC
While short-term economic perspectives in the APEC region appear steady, the medium-term outlook is less promising, requiring strategic action to tackle mounting challenges. More >>
APEC Growth Holds Steady Amid Uncertainty, Calls For Structural Reforms
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 8:07 pm | APEC
The report projects GDP growth of 3.3 percent in 2025, following an estimated 3.5 percent expansion in 2024, though a further slowdown to 2.7 percent is anticipated in the coming years. More >>
APEC Senior Officials Outline Key Priorities For 2025 In Gyeongju
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 8:03 pm | APEC
“This is a pivotal moment for our region,” said Ambassador Yoon Seongmee, Chair of the 2025 APEC Senior Officials’ Meeting as she opened the meeting on Saturday. “Our goal is to reinforce our shared commitment to a future that benefits all of ... More >>
Senior Officials Chart Policy Agenda On Economic And Technical Cooperation
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 8:00 pm | APEC
Their collaborative work aims to advance growth and prosperity across all member economies and is a key part of Korea's forward-looking 2025 host year theme, “Building a Sustainable Tomorrow.” More >>
Change Happens When Gender Inequality Survivors Join Hands To Stop TB
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 6:08 pm | CNS
Jyoti’s message to all women is: “One must be educated, but we must respect even those who are not educated. One should not look down upon the poor. Every life matters, every life is important. We must strive to protect every life as a fellow human being.” More >>
Global Standards, Local Impact: How Standards And Conformance Is Shaping APEC 2025
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 5:57 pm | APEC News
The SCSC plays a vital role in regulatory harmonization, compliance, and best practices across various sectors. More >>
ICHRP Condemns Heightening Attacks Against Peasants & Indigenous People Following FA-50 Crash In Mindanao
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 5:47 pm | ICHRP
ICHRP calls on the GRP to uphold IHL and end its campaign of surveillance and indiscriminate bombings in civilian communities. We must develop the solidarity movement for the struggle of Filipinos for land and life amid growing aerial attacks and bombings. More >>
Experts Alarmed By Deterioration Of Fundamental Freedoms And Civic Space In Slovak Republic
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 5:42 pm | OHCHR
They warned that the labelling of NGOs receiving international funding as “foreign agents” and constant Government rhetoric against civil society organisations has sparked fears that political dissent and democratic freedoms could be severely restricted. More >>
End Criminalisation Of Same-sex Intimacy Across The Commonwealth
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 5:39 pm | The Human Dignity Trust
LGBT people face criminal penalties in over half of Commonwealth member states More >>
