Tag: UN
Philippines faces call for UN rights inquiry into war-on-drugs killings
Amnesty International is calling Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on drugs a "systematic campaign of killing". It wants the United Nations to investigate what...
UN chief waffles over West Papuan human rights violations
Vanuatu-based journalist Ben Bohane raises West Papuan questions with UN Secretary-General António Guterres during his visit to Vanuatu. Video: Ben Bohane/Ginny Stein
By Dan McGarry...
Guterres praises Fiji over leadership in global battle against climate change
UN Webcast reports on the UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Fiji.
By RNZ Pacific
The UN Secretary General António Guterres has praised Fiji as a strong...
UN Security-General tells youth be ‘noisy as possible’ on climate change
By Michael Andrew
Older generations are failing to address climate change and they need the world’s youth to lead the way, says United Nations Secretary-General...
Times global university sustainability index ranks ‘creative’ AUT 16th
AUT is a strategic partner for New Zealand's Techweek19 programme next month, on May 20-26, and the only NZ university taking part. Dr Roseanne...
‘Most important years in history’ – last chance over climate, says...
Warming beyond 1.5C will unleash a frightening set of consequences and scientists say only a global transformation, beginning now, can avoid it. Climate Home...
Plea for PM to be ‘game-changer’ in Pacific support for West...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A New Zealand-based West Papua advocacy group has appealed to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other leaders meeting at the Pacific...
Indonesia risks ending up with a doomed ‘can’t-do’ climate plan
By Warief Djajanto Basorie
Three hundred schoolchildren from the greater Jakarta area sat on a red carpet covering the cavernous Soedjarwo auditorium—named to honour the...
Worse West Papua human rights, ‘shrinking space’, says new report
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
West Papua has experienced a "significant aggravation" of the human rights situation in the past two years compared to previous years,...
Vanuatu’s PM aims at UN over ‘sensitive’ West Papua issue
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Vanuatu’s Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas, says some South Pacific leaders at this month's Forum in Samoa backed off...
Callamard slams $26 state budget for Philippine human rights body
By Paterno Esmaquel II in Manila
United Nations Rapporteur Agnes Callamard has slammed the P1000 (NZ$26) budget that the House of Representatives voted to...
Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A Wansolwara second-year student journalist from the University of the South Pacific has been included among 10 Pacific journalists who have...
Sope praises Fidel Castro over Cuban backing for Vanuatu independence
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
Former Vanuatu Prime Minister and the country's first Roving Ambassador, Barak Sope, has expressed his personal tribute to the...
42 dead and relief focuses on hardest-hit, says Fiji UN...
By Lice Movono-Rova of Newswire Fiji
Forty-two people have died as a result of severe tropical cyclone Winston, says Fiji’s Ambassador to the United Nations Peter...
