Across Asia, crimes against journalists keep mounting
Attacks on media workers frequently go unpunished.
UN experts ‘alarmed’ by New Caledonia deaths as Pacific fact-finding mission readies
UN Human Rights Committee challenges France on security operations and its attitude to decolonization.
IMF, ADB set sights on damning $37m Solomon Islands aid audit
Report by auditor general found mismanagement and potential fraud in COVID-19 pandemic package payments.
Marshall Islands wins Human Rights Council seat with climate, nuclear justice agenda
President Hilda Heine says all nations must be accountable 'without exception or double standard.'
US election: Trump II to affect trade, security in SE Asia, experts say
Donald Trump’s return to the White House may cause trade to slow down in and raise regional tensions in SE Asia.
Pacific push sees UN launch first nuclear war impact study in 35 years
Nuclear weapons test legacy is felt across the Pacific, notably in Marshall Islands and French Polynesia.
UN climate change case ‘particularly relevant’ following Trump election win: lawyer
Proponents of case hope for world court opinion that transcends changes in government.
Climate ‘flashpoint’ looms for Trump’s China-centric focus on Pacific: US analysts
Deepening U.S. engagement with the Pacific is now firmly a consensus issue in Washington.
French Polynesian president asks UN to bring France into decolonization talks
Any UN role in negotiating the territory’s self-determination aspirations is rejected by France.
French PM scraps divisive New Caledonia electoral change after months of unrest
Violence erupted in May leaving 13 dead, the economy crippled and the territory under curfew.
