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French riot police near the spot - marked with a tribal offering - where 19-year-old Jybril Salo was shot in the back last May.
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Australian academic and social justIce advocate Helen Hill
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The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel’s occupation of the Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal
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A Kanaky prison parallel with Palestine
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Suspended Fiji Director of Public Prosecutions Christopher Pryde
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United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative to the South Pacific Jonathan Veitch
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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PNG Communications Technology Minister Tmothy Masiu
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ICJ's Chief Justice Nawaf Salam
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The recent Fiji mass rally for decolonisation and justice in Suva
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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In the Eye of the Storm
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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
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Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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