Why Ignoring Procurement Costs More Than You Think

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OPINION | Time for action is now

EVERY 10 minutes, a woman is killed by her partner or a family member. Around the world, 2.7 billion women are barred from having the same job opportunities as men — just because of their gender. And as climate change and disasters intensify,...

Opetaia Foa’i to Receive 2025 Pacific Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award

Opetaia Foa’i with daughter Olivia. Photo: Opetaia Foa’i / Facebook Opetaia Foa’i has been named the recipient of the Ministry for Pacific Peoples Lifetime Achievement Award at this years’ Pacific Music Awards. A pioneering artist, cultural...

CEDAW training will strengthen Cook Islands shadow report-Mariri

National Council of Women Office Manager Taputu Mariri. LISA WILLIAMS/25041502 Shadow reporting for the Cook Islands Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) government report lodged with the United...

ICJ climate ruling to reshape global environmental laws

THE HAGUE: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to issue a historic advisory opinion on climate change, defining nations’ legal duties to curb emissions and address environmental harm. The ruling, expected to influence global climate...

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Themes - Any - Advocacy and media Capacity development Children and Youth Civil Society/NGOs Climate change Community-based DRR Critical infrastructure Cultural heritage Disaster risk management Early warning Economics of DRR Education and school...

Climate crisis to legal battles

| IUCN IN A quiet courtroom in the Hague, history stirred. A legal ripple, as gentle as a sigh from the Pacific, reached the shorelines of global governance. The International Court of Justice declared, in an advisory fashion though, that one...

An international court ruling, proof that the world can follow the Pacific’s lead on climate action

This week the International Court of Justice delivered a strong advisory opinion that States have a clear legal obligation to cut emissions, prevent harm to the climate system and in some cases, pay for historical damages caused by their...

Pacific Women Leaders Meeting told to push past rhetoric and deliver…

Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Baron Waqa has urged women leaders to shift from consultation to action, as he opened the 4th Pacific Islands Forum Women Leaders Meeting in Suva this week. “This is where we confront tough questions,...

International law is now on our side: Australia must follow Pacific’s lead on climate action

This week the International Court of Justice delivered a strong advisory opinion that States have a clear legal obligation to cut emissions, prevent harm to the climate system and in some cases, pay for historical damages caused by their...

International News Briefs for Tuesday, July 1, 2025

HAVANA TIMES – Here are some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Israel Bombs Crowded Gaza Cafe, Killing Dozens, Including Children Jul 01, 2025 Israeli attacks on Gaza killed nearly 100...

India’s climate demands were once moral claims. Now ICJ says they’re international law

When a group of Pacific Island law students first proposed in 2019 that the International Court of Justice should weigh in on climate change, few imagined the world’s top court would respond with one of the most sweeping legal opinions in its...

From dying reefs to flooded graves, Vanuatu leads a global climate case

When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns branched into yellow antlers, plate corals layered like canopies, and...

Palmerston unites across oceans for Te Maeva Nui

Members of the Palmerston Island team arrive in high spirits aboard the MV Nivaga III for Te Maeva Nui. MELINA ETCHES/25072204 Sixteen members of the Palmerston Island community arrived in Rarotonga on Sunday aboard the MV Nivaga III, ready to...

From dying reefs to flooded graves, Vanuatu is leading a global climate case

PORT VILA, Vanuatu (AP) — When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns branched into yellow antlers, plate corals...

How climate change is creating refugees across the world

As the global attention remains focussed on the ‘human tragedies’ unfolding in Ukraine and Gaza, another crisis brews quietly on the margins – climate-induced displacement. The number of people displaced not by war or conflict, but by a planet in...

24th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial Meeting Concludes In Niue

A group photo of the Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial at the conclusion of the three-day meeting in Niue (Photo/Supplied) ALOFI, NIUE, 24 JULY 2025 – The 24th Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) Ministerial Meeting and the 6th Regional Fisheries...

Landmark Climate Change Case This Week – Expert Reaction

The International Court of Justice will be delivering its advisory opinion on what obligations countries have to address the impacts of climate change very early morning this Thursday (NZ time). The case started with Pacific youth lobbying...

Pacific Islands focus: deep sea mining, reproductive injustice and a new breast screen campaign

Introduction by Croakey: World leaders are calling for a moratorium on deep sea mining to prevent devastating and irreversible environmental harm. This week, governments are meeting in Jamaica at the 30th Session of the International Seabed...

UN court rules wealthy nations pay up for climate change damages in controversial global ruling

CNN was surprised on Thursday by polling data showing that the majority of Americans are not very worried about the impact of climate change. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday ruled that...