Youth representatives from 14 #Pacific countries & territories are coming together to elect the new Pacific Youth Council Board of Directors. Today we pave the way for a revitalised PYC & demonstrate the importance of ensuring youth are at the forefront of decisions & development
#PacificPeoples | A momentous gathering of traditional leaders from 🇼🇸 Samoa, 🇳🇿 Aotearoa New Zealand, 🇫🇯 Fiji & 🇺🇸 Hawai’i is happening this week! This sets the stage for the Pacific Traditional Leaders Forum 2024 at the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture.
#PacificCultures
[NEW RESEARCH] Strategic jostling between development partners in the Pacific has transformed development assistance into a flashpoint in the intensifying geopolitical competition in the region, a new Lowy Institute Policy Brief shows.
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👏 We applaud Palau 🇵🇼 for being the first @UN Member State to officially ratify the historic #HighSeasTreaty.
59 more countries must ratify for the Treaty to enter into force. Call on countries to accelerate the #RaceForRatification!
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#BREAKING UN Security Council ADOPTS resolution calling for urgent steps to allow safe, unhindered and expanded humanitarian access throughout Gaza; US and Russia abstain
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In Favor: 13
Against: 0
Abstain: 2 (US, Russia)
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Dr @mvankerkhove talks about the current surge in respiratory diseases #COVID19 and JN.1 subvariant.
WHO continues to assess the situation. Follow WHO's public health advice to keep your families and friends safe during this holiday season.
“How do we go home and tell them the result that the world has sold us out?”
“How do we go home and tell our kids that the world has sold us out?”
@Brianna_Fruean, @350Pacific Pacific Climate Warrior and @fossiltreaty Pacific Champion.
BREAKING: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution demanding immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, as well as immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
FOR: 153
AGAINST: 10
ABSTAIN: 23
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📣 The Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation supports the preservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites, manuscripts, museum collections, and more, in over 120 countries.
Apply now for the 2024 #AFCP Grants Program: ow.ly/yKCZ50QcHVP
Oceanic Refractions is an immersive installation featuring testimonies of Fijian, i-Kiribati and Papua New Guinean elders on kinship, self-determination and care in the face of global ecocide: ctm-festival.de/festival-2024/…
I look forward to the challenge of becoming the leading dual-sector university in the Pacific by serving the people, economy and society of Fiji and the wider Pacific region!
Traditional welcome ceremony for the Vice Chancellor FNU, Prof Unaisi Nabobo Baba. Beautiful cultural ceremony and much emotion and alofa for this wonderful sista. So deserving! ❤️
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259 Followers 83 FollowingThe Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture (FESTPAC) is the world’s largest celebration of indigenous Pacific Islanders. Hawaiʻi will host FESTPAC in June 2024.