Tag: PIF
Fiji women condemn Bainimarama government’s ‘silence’ on West Papua
By Rusiate Baleilevuka in Suva
A Fiji women's advocacy group has condemned their government for remaining silent over the human rights violations in West Papua...
60,000 flee as West Papua conflict deepens, poses questions for region
SPECIAL REPORT: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
Armed conflict in West Papua continues to claim lives, displace tens of thousands of people and cause...
Pacific civil society groups slam New Caledonia ballot as ‘unjust …...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The French government’s decision to press ahead with the third and final referendum vote for self-determination in Kanaky New Caledonia was...
Glasgow showdown: Pacific Islands demand global leaders bring action, not excuses,...
ANALYSIS: By Wesley Morgan, Griffith University
The Pacific Islands are at the frontline of climate change. But as rising seas threaten their very existence, these...
Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation
By RNZ Pacific
The Speaker of Fiji's Parliament has rejected calls from the opposition to debate the controversial deportation of the University of the South...
Former Cook Islands PM elected new secretary-general of PIF in close...
By RNZ Pacific
Former Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna has been narrowly elected as the new secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum after a...
Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact
By RNZ Pacific
The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum has welcomed the re-entry of the United States to the Paris agreement over climate change.
Within...
Tongan PM blasts Pacific regionalism ‘myth’ and silence over West Papua
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
By Makereta Komai in Funafuti, Tuvalu
Tonga’s Prime Minister, 'Akilisi Pohiva, has delivered a stinging attack against regionalism and the Pacific Islands...
Relocation for ‘sinking islands’ cheaper but ‘we’re staying’, vows Tuvalu PM
By Matthew Vari in Funafuti, Tuvalu
Relocation is a cheap option for sinking island countries - but "we are going to stay", vows Tuvalu Prime...
MSG backing Kanak independence ‘on the quiet’, says campaigner
By RNZ Pacific
A leading New Caledonian pro-independence politician, Victor Tutugoro, says governments of Melanesian countries have quietly supported the New Caledonian independence cause.
Tutugoro, second...
Memo NZ: ‘Get on the right side of history’ over West...
Vanuatu says New Zealand should get on the right side of history and support West Papuan self-determination. However, reports James Halpin of Asia Pacific...
TVNZ Pacific reporter released after being detained in Nauru
Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver tells media of her three-hour detention by Nauru police after interviewing a refugee today. She was stripped...
NZ Pacific journalists ‘appalled’ by Nauru ban on ABC at Forum
The ABC has a reputation for vigorous reporting of Pacific issues, including human rights violations at the Australian-established Nauru detention centre for asylum seekers....
Oxfam slams NZ’s Pacific climate funds – too ‘business focused’
Oxfam New Zealand says the Government's finance towards Pacific climate change is business focused and does not benefit families in need.
Rachael Le Mesurier, Oxfam...
Air Niugini operates special ‘hub’ flight services to FSM
The government of the Federated States of Micronesia has thanked Papua New Guinea for connecting both countries through air services that are being operated...
Regional fisheries, climate change, disaster risk management top Forum agenda
Increasing the economic returns of regional fisheries, and responding to the effects of climate change and disaster risk management are two priority issues that...
Herman Wainggai: 14 years on, nothing has changed for West Papua
OPINION: By Herman Wainggai
In 2002, West Papuan leaders and I traveled to Fiji to urge leaders of the PIF to support West Papua.
I also...
COP21: Forum’s Meg Taylor makes Pacific video plea to world leaders
Report by Vuniwaqa Bola-Bari
Pacific Ocean Commissioner Dame Meg Taylor has called on world leaders meeting in Paris to protect the Pacific region and the...