16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (2022)

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign observed every year to raise visibility around the call for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence. The prevalence of violence against women and girls in all…

Human Rights Day 2022

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone document that proclaims the inalienable rights which everyone…

Building more inclusive communities for senior citizens in the Federated States of Micronesia

In its work towards strengthening inclusiveness and aspiring to achieve equal participation and representation, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) registered its very first Net’s Senior Citizens Association (NSCA) as a legal entity at both the…

USAID and Pacific Community (SPC) Launch PROJECT Governance

To strengthen local communities efforts to foster consensus and inclusion, inspire ownership and draw on local understanding of governance in the Pacific, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Pacific Community (SPC)…

Keynote Address by Honourable Fiame Naomi Mataafa Prime Minister of Samoa at the Virtual Launch of Promoting Just, Engaged, Civic-minded and Transparent (PROJECT) Governance programme

 

Ocean Acidification Week: Coral reefs are facing bleaching due to warmer seas and damage from pollution

As part of the Ocean Acidification Week (13-17 Sept), the Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Science (PCCOS) is highlight facts, research, and initiatives on ocean acidification.

RMI advances campaign to ban single use plastic products

The Marshall Islands Conservation Society (MICS) recognizes that as human beings, we cannot enjoy our rights to food, water, health, and housing in a degrading environment.  Thanks to support from the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Pacific People Advancing…

Vanuatu’s Experience: Implementation of Domestic Violence Legislation

The Pacific has some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence in the world. Since 2008, Family Health and Safety Studies in 11 Pacific Island Countries and Territories have indicated rates of lifetime physical and sexual violence by intimate…

Regional Working Group Implementation of Domestic Violence Legislation

​The impacts of the pandemic and cyclones on domestic violence will be a key focus of the upcoming annual meeting of the 2021 annual meeting of the Regional Working Group on the Implementation of Family Protection and Domestic Violence Legislation (RWG)…

Traditional knowledge in Tuvalu offers lessons for future of nations youth

Youth representatives from around Tuvalu convened earlier this month for an intergenerational dialogue as part of a week-long International Youth Day celebration to discuss key issues affecting young people in the country.
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