Monthly Archives: February 2016
Biman Prasad: Is our Fiji democracy really working?
Dr Biman Prasad, leader of Fiji's Opposition National Federation Party, suspended for 30 days yesterday by the Fijian Elections Office, assesses the country's "deeply...
Fiji’s National Federation Party suspended for 30 days over accounts
Report from Fiji Village
By Vijay Narayan in Suva
Fiji's opposition National Federation Party has been suspended for 30 days with immediate effect for contravening the...
De Brum, Nuclear Zero lawyers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Report from the International Peace Bureau
By Colin Archer in Geneva
The Oslo-based International Peace Bureau has nominated former Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum...
Vanuatu to install tsunami signs, sirens in urban areas
Report from Vanuatu Daily Post
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Port Vila and Luganville will be introduced to a complete tsunami warning system by the...
Workers Voice: TPPA protests, climate change post-Paris and Waitangi Day
PlanetFM
Protests against the TPPA protests, the climate change movement post-Paris 2015, and the run up to Waitangi day ...
Unite Union's Joe Carolan talks to...
11,000 plus women abused a year, reports PNG police family unit
PNG Today/PNG TV
Up to 35 abused women go to the Boroko Family and Sexual Violence Unit a day in Papua New Guinea's capital Port...
Chief magistrate rejects arrest bid in Vanuatu conspiracy case
From Vanuatu Daily Post
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
Attempts to arrest former Prime Minister Joe Natuman and former Acting Police Commissioner Aru Maralau for...
NZ’s ‘corruption free’ perception ranking drops second year in row
Transparency International NZ
New Zealand has fallen to fourth place in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index - the second consecutive drop in a survey...
Challenging start to the year in Asia-Pacific free expression
Report from IFEX
By Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Journalists have been killed in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan in separate incidents that took place in January...