Tag: United Nations Development Programme
Defunding UNRWA will cause Gazans ‘more misery and suffering’, warns former...
Asia Pacific Report
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, who led the UN Development Programme which oversees UNRWA, told RNZ Morning Report today it...
Palestinian agency condemns funding cuts as ‘ collective punishment’
Asia Pacific Report
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has joined a chorus of global development and political figures defending the United Nations "lifeline"...
PNG police chief demands covid-19 emergency funding reports from UN
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning -- who is also head of the country's Covid-19 National Control Centre -- has placed United...
Steven Ratuva becomes world’s first Pacific distinguished professor
Tagata Pasifika
Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva is the first Pacific person ever to be promoted to the highest professorial status of distinguished professor.
The award-winning Fiji-born...
UN relationship with Samoa under a cloud over ‘political breaches’
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
The United Nations has glaring problems in Samoa where the government is calling for the UN's role in the...
NZ must help Solomon Islands tackle unemployment ‘time bomb’, says Clark
By Jessica Marshall in Auckland
The Solomon Islands faces a “time bomb” with a youth unemployment rate of 82 percent and New Zealand needs to...